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The Little Mermaid

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The Little Mermaid	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Entry #28 in the Disney Animated Canon, from 1989.A loose adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's Tear Jerker Fairy Tale "The Little Mermaid", it features a mermaid named Ariel (Jodi Benson), one of the daughters of the Sea King, Triton (Kenneth Mars). Apparently unique among her kind, she is fascinated by the human world, although Triton has a hatred for humans that makes pursuing her interest quite difficult. One night, a forbidden visit to the surface leads her to fall in Love at First Sight with human Prince Eric (Christopher Daniel Barnes), and she ends up rescuing him when his ship is destroyed in a storm. Now desperate to become a human, she agrees to barter her voice to the sea witch Ursula (Pat Carroll) to become a human for three days; if she can receive True Love's Kiss from him within that time, she'll be permanently human. Otherwise, she will be Ursula's slave. Indeed, Ursula is actually manipulating her to turn her into ransom for Triton's crown, and she knows that the only thing Eric remembers about Ariel is her beautiful, beautiful voice...Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The film's critical and commercial success was considered a huge turning point for both Disney and western animation as a whole. Since the rise of home television in the 1950's, animation in the Anglosphere had gone through a rather ugly dark age marked by severely reduced budgets and the rise of the Animation Age Ghetto, leading to a glut of low-quality animated films and TV shows meant to pander to child audiences and sell merchandise. Additionally, Disney had spent the better part of the 70's and 80's licking the wounds of Walt Disney's death in 1966, and while the films they put out after The Jungle Book and before this one are still well-loved among fans and critics, both groups generally agree that they mark a commercial and artistic slump for the House of Mouse between 1968 and 1988, culminating in the infamous and near-Career Killer flop of The Black Cauldron in 1985. The Little Mermaid, however, was the point where all of that changed.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })While western animation had already been creeping back up to its former glory both visually and artistically throughout the latter half of the 1980's, and Disney themselves had gone through some much-needed internal renovations after The Black Cauldron (to noticeably improved results), The Little Mermaid was considered the tipping point for both, being the first wholly-animated film in ages to be seen as a commercial and artistic triumph on par with live-action material. As a result, this movie is not only considered the most definitive start of The Renaissance Age of Animation, but also the beginning of the Disney Renaissance, a second golden age for the company marked by a return to producing and releasing high-quality commercially and critically successful animated movies based mostly on well-established literature and folklore. The period lasted for roughly a decade, ending with the release of Tarzan in 1999.Of technical historic note, this was the last film of the Disney Canon to use traditional cel animation. All of the studio's future hand-drawn features would be inked and colored digitally using the Computer Animated Production System (or CAPS) software developed by Pixar (the final shot of this film was colored digitally due to a time crunch) and, much later, ToonBoom.Its success led to a franchise that has seen two direct-to-video follow-ups (a sequel and a prequel), a prequel TV series and a successful Broadway musical.The characters also figure in the Kingdom Hearts video game series, and other tie-in merchandise and media appearances are going strong with Ariel as an official Disney Princess. A stage musical adaptation was launched in 2007, and a Disney Parks dark ride debuted at Disney California Adventure in 2011 (with a Magic Kingdom port opening the following year).A Disney Digital 3-D re-release was slated for September 2013; however, it was later cancelled, and the 3D prints instead went straight to Blu-ray.A live telecast on The Wonderful World of Disney was announced in 2016 but was shelved, then revived in summer 2019 and broadcast on November 5 that same year. The live version was a hybrid, combining live performances with the original film (songs were taken from both the movie and the Broadway version), and starred Auli'i Cravalho as Ariel, Queen Latifah as Ursula, Shaggy as Sebastian, John Stamos as Chef Louie, Amber Riley as the emcee for Sebastian's concert at the beginning, and Graham Philips as Eric, with Jodi Benson appearing at the beginning and end of the special; in addition, Flounder, Flotsam, and Jetsam were depicted using puppets, and Max was portrayed by a real sheepdog named Bagel.A live action remake is currently in development, with Rob Marshall (Beauty and the Beast (2017), Mary Poppins Returns) at the helm and Alan Menken returning as composer and writing new songs alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is co-producing the film with Marc Platt. R&B singer Halle Bailey has been cast as Ariel, with Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric, Javier Bardem as King Triton, Melissa McCarthy as Ursula, Awkwafina as Scuttle and Jacob Tremblay as Flounder.All character tropes should be moved to The Little Mermaid character pages. If there is a Little Mermaid character, they are in that index somewhere.
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The Little Mermaid / int_1049848f	comment	Aliens Speaking English: But with merfolks. Without it, giving up a voice might not have been so painful. Ariel wouldn't know how to talk to the prince, and Biped!Ariel could have just learned to speak the local Deaf lingo.
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The Little Mermaid / int_10e7d43c	type	Fanfare
The Little Mermaid / int_10e7d43c	comment	Fanfare: King Triton gets a nice trumpet fanfare as he enters, fitting for Lord of all the Seas. Sebastian also gets one, played on a kazoo.
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The Little Mermaid / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
The Little Mermaid / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Sebastian, Flounder, Scuttle and Grimsby are characters exclusive to this adaptation of the story.
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The Little Mermaid / int_127a3b31	type	Badly Battered Babysitter
The Little Mermaid / int_127a3b31	comment	Badly Battered Babysitter: Sebastian's part in the movie is a fleshed out version of this plot. The fact that his charge is 16 does not make things any easier.
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The Little Mermaid / int_12e0bb9	type	Urban Legends
The Little Mermaid / int_12e0bb9	comment	Urban Legends: In similar fashion to the word "SEX" allegedly appearing in the sky in The Lion King, one of the posters and the 1990 Walt Disney Classics VHS front cover for The Little Mermaid feature a decidedly phallic-looking column on King Triton's castle. The legend goes that a disgruntled animator had been fired and drew the column into the poster out of spite before he left. Whatever the case, the art has since been changed and recent posters no longer feature the castle anyway.
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The Little Mermaid / int_1420a9b8	type	Scenery Censor
The Little Mermaid / int_1420a9b8	comment	Scenery Censor: Nude Ariel on land: while Sebastian & company might be getting an eyeful in a few scenes, the audience won't. Also, in addition to the Censor Shadow while she's under the water, few strategically placed bubbles block the view between Ariel's legs just in case any particularly lecherous viewers should try gamma-correcting those shots in a graphics editing program.
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The Little Mermaid / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Ariel briefly undergoes one when "Vanessa" (Ursula in disguise) enchants Eric and the two are set to be married, leaving Ariel unable to fulfill her end of the bargain, meaning she will become Ursula's prisoner and be forever separated from Eric, her father, and her sisters. She can only weep in utter devastation at her loss. However, she snaps out of it upon learning of Ursula's deception and hurries to stop her from marrying Eric.
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The Little Mermaid / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
The Little Mermaid / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: It goes both ways, too.
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The Little Mermaid / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: While it does have some Disneyfication it is a little darker than the original story, which was more of a tragedy. Here the sea witch is far more menacing and the mermaid faces being eternally trapped in her garden as a polyp. Not to mention that the witch is essentially trying to conquer the entire ocean. The part where the mermaid trades her voice for legs is far scarier than in the story. The shipwreck scene compared to the original story here. Special attention is drawn to the fact that the sailors could very well have died, and the ship explodes due to gunpowder. Lightning strikes the sails, making them catch on fire too. The whole time, the focus on Ariel's reaction shows that she's terrified and doesn't know what's going on.
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The Little Mermaid / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Little Mermaid / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Eric uses a very poor choice in words with the following line.
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The Little Mermaid / int_16364a29	type	Evil Sounds Deep
The Little Mermaid / int_16364a29	comment	Evil Sounds Deep: Ursula after she grows gigantic in the climax.
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The Little Mermaid / int_167bd2ca	type	All According to Plan
The Little Mermaid / int_167bd2ca	comment	All According to Plan: Ursula the sea witch, transformed into the human woman "Vanessa," sings "What a lovely little bride I'll make / My dear, I'll look divine / Everything is working out according to my ultimate design." This, however, is actually something of a subversion in that Ursula is experiencing a Sanity Slippage because her original plan isn't working out. She had thought that she could just take Ariel's voice and this would be enough to keep her from ever getting Prince Eric to give her the kiss of true love. After a near-miss only just stopped by her eel henchmen, she hastily concocted this plan to put Prince Eric under her spell and marry him herself.
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The Little Mermaid / int_16fdd774	type	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle
The Little Mermaid / int_16fdd774	comment	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: Eric's boots come off in the ocean while Ariel is trying to save him from drowning. They also come off after Eric defeats Ursula, and before he makes it to shore.
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The Little Mermaid / int_170cf4b6	type	Heroes Love Dogs
The Little Mermaid / int_170cf4b6	comment	Heroes Love Dogs: And will nearly die for them.
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The Little Mermaid / int_1777836c	comment	True Love's Kiss
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The Little Mermaid / int_17a45ff5	type	Misplaced Wildlife
The Little Mermaid / int_17a45ff5	comment	Misplaced Wildlife: Carp and newts living in saltwater habitats.
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The Little Mermaid / int_17b5862b	type	Chariot Pulled by Cats
The Little Mermaid / int_17b5862b	comment	Chariot Pulled by Cats: King Triton makes his entrance into the concert hall riding on a giant oyster shell pulled by two seahorses. Inside the concert hall, though Triton can swim just fine with his own fishtail. Mer-kings be wack. Sebastian rides a normal-sized seashell pulled by a normal-sized seahorse, which Sebastian has a little trouble controlling.
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The Little Mermaid / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Little Mermaid / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Triton's kingdom being called Atlantica is never said in the movie, but it's called that all other supplementary materials. Ursula's human alter ego being called Vanessa too. You can just about hear the priest addressing her as Vanessa at the wedding.
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The Little Mermaid / int_17fe1048	type	Naked on Arrival
The Little Mermaid / int_17fe1048	comment	Naked on Arrival: When Ariel first becomes human, the lower half of her body is unclothed.
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The Little Mermaid / int_18a84025	type	Only Six Faces
The Little Mermaid / int_18a84025	comment	Only Six Faces: Ariel's sisters in the original appear to be exactly the same. The only difference is their hair and the color of their tails and bras. Although they look the same in the face, Adella is the chubby one out of the bunch, differentiating her from the rest of her slim sisters.
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The Little Mermaid / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The Little Mermaid / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: The first two lines of "Under the Sea" are "The seaweednote an organism that lives in salt-water environments is always greener / In somebody else's lakenote generally a fresh-water environment.
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The Little Mermaid / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Little Mermaid / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: During "Vanessa's" song: "Soon I'll have that little mermaid and the ocean will be mine!"
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The Little Mermaid / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
The Little Mermaid / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The first teaser for the third movie, made entirely from scenes of the first two. Still manages to be quite haunting.
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The Little Mermaid / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
The Little Mermaid / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Whilst not as popular as Phillip from Sleeping Beauty, Eric nevertheless has his fair share of fangirls. It helps that he's the Animation Renaissance's first bona fide badass. Old fellow or not, Triton is pretty well-built, himself. Doesn't hurt that he's basically Aquaman with a fish tail.
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The Little Mermaid / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Little Mermaid / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Easy to miss, but can you find Mickey, Donald and Goofy? Kermit the Frog makes a cameo in the same scene. A little symbol of Mickey can be seen like a crest on Ursula's Magically Binding Contract. The King and Grand Duke from Cinderella are at Eric's wedding A painting of Aurora and Phillip is in Eric's castle. At the end of the "Under the Sea" musical number, among the sea creatures pointing at the rock where Ariel was sitting is Mr. Limpet. In fact, if you go on the dark ride based on the film at Disney's California Adventure, during the "Under the Sea" room there's a Mr. Limpet figure peeking out of some seaweed!
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The Little Mermaid / int_1b77fe36	type	Two-Person Love Triangle
The Little Mermaid / int_1b77fe36	comment	Two-Person Love Triangle: Because Eric thinks that Ariel, not having a voice, can't be the woman who saved him, given that he heard this mystery woman singing.
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The Little Mermaid / int_1b8ff67c	type	Above the Influence
The Little Mermaid / int_1b8ff67c	comment	Above the Influence: Eric has a girl he rescued from the beach obviously into him, given how she clings to him when he helps her to the castle, and she happily spends the entire next day with him. This girl also makes him laugh, is gracious as she is silent, and is full of surprises. He hesitates on kissing her, however, because as he tells her, he doesn't even know her name. There's also the issue of Sacred Hospitality in that she's technically his guest. After Sebastian whispers that her name is Ariel and Ariel nods when he asks, Eric loosens up.
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The Little Mermaid / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
The Little Mermaid / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: A rather dark one. When Ursula sings the line "It's she who holds her tongue, who gets her man.", she tosses a human-looking tongue into her cauldron.
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The Little Mermaid / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
The Little Mermaid / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: The stage version has a song called "If Only", in which Ariel, Eric, Sebastian, and Triton all in different places mourn that they can't understand or be understood by someone they care deeply about.
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The Little Mermaid / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
The Little Mermaid / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Villain Song: "Poor Unfortunate Souls". And to a lesser extent, even though it's more comedic, "Les Poissons". Chef Louie's sadistic glee is almost certainly villainous as he comes close to serving Sebastian for dinner. In The Musical, "I Want The Good Times Back", again by Ursula. The prequel has Marina Del Ray's "Just One Mistake". The sequel has a deleted one, "Gonna Get My Wish".
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The Little Mermaid / int_1d9a2764	type	Reality Ensues
The Little Mermaid / int_1d9a2764	comment	Reality Ensues: Ariel misses her musical debut due to exploring shipwrecks. When she realizes it and heads back, both her father and her conductor chew her out for being so irresponsible since it humiliated Triton and Sebastian. It doesn't matter how trained a sailor is; if a ship gets caught in a hurricane, then everyone onboard is at risk. Eric won't kiss a girl he just met because he doesn't even know her name due to her being mute, even if she's sending clear signals and also she's technically his guest. He only acquiesces on finding out her name and Grimsby telling her she's wonderful, real, and right before his eyes.
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The Little Mermaid / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: And protects her from Ursula (Well, he tries.)
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The Little Mermaid / int_1e0f3f12	comment	Flower in Her Hair: Ariel, moments before and during "Under The Sea".
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The Little Mermaid / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
The Little Mermaid / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: After a long string of generic Prince Charmings, Prince Eric actually turns out to be quite the hero. He killed Ursula by impaling her with a freaking boat. Dialogue during the dinner scene suggests that Eric is quite active in the ruling of his kingdom and has to take time off just to show Ariel around. Ariel, Triton and Melody are pretty active as well, when danger shows up. The scene at the beginning of the movie also bears this out - Eric clearly knows his way around the ship, leaping to help a sailor lash down a line on a cleat. And right after this, another sailor remarks of Eric's ignorance of Triton "Thought every good sailor knew about him", indicating that he, a real old salt, considers Eric to be a good sailor.
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The Little Mermaid / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
The Little Mermaid / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Ariel trades her voice to Ursula to be human. Ursula actually specializes in this kind of deal and has a "garden" full of merfolk who were turned into polyps when they weren't able to fulfill the terms of their contracts. Ironically, listen to the lines "This one longing to be thinner, that one wants to get the girl" - it seems the two examples Ursula gave already wanted each other; what they lacked was self-confidence. In the musical, Ursula's contracts had all the attributes of a literal Deal with the Devil:
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The Little Mermaid / int_20952a1	comment	Product Displacement: The 2013 restoration/3D conversion removed the words, "In Association With Silver Screen Partners IV" from the opening credits.
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The Little Mermaid / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: In the original fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, the Sea Witch is a more neutral character with no agenda and no animosity towards anyone; while she makes the same deal with the unnamed mermaid, she warns her of the consequences presented by the transformation and even offers her a way out at her sisters' request. In the original story, the prince chooses to marry a human princess of his own free will, and there is no indication that this princess is a bad person. In the Disney version, this character becomes Vanessa, who is actually Ursula in disguise, and Eric only agrees to marry her because he's under a spell. King Triton is subject to a bit of this as well. In the original story the sea king was neutral as well and the mermaid sought out the sea witch on her own. The film has Triton despise humans and forbid his daughter from any contact with them—even destroying her collection of artifacts to try and stop her. Of course he undergoes a Heel–Face Turn pretty quickly.
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The Little Mermaid / int_2104e7d4	type	Powerful and Helpless
The Little Mermaid / int_2104e7d4	comment	Powerful and Helpless: Triton can do nothing to break the contract Ariel signed with Ursula. All the power he wields through his trident cannot destroy the contract. All he can do to save Ariel is pull a Take Me Instead.
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The Little Mermaid / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Little Mermaid / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Considering how much spotlight is put on the underwater inhabitants being sapient equals to the merpeople, the kitchen scene with Louis whimsically chopping up and cooking sea food is played in a hilariously morbid manner. A traumatised Sebastian has to hold himself from vomiting.
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The Little Mermaid / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Little Mermaid / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The shipwrecks in the ocean, where Ariel explores. Ursula makes them float using the trident, and Eric pilots one to impale her.
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The Little Mermaid / int_2484396e	type	Know-Nothing Know-It-All
The Little Mermaid / int_2484396e	comment	Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Scuttle claims to be an expert on humans but thinks forks are combs called "dinglehoppers", and smoking pipes are musical instruments called "snarfblats".
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The Little Mermaid / int_25101d1a	type	Post-Victory Collapse
The Little Mermaid / int_25101d1a	comment	Post-Victory Collapse: Eric passes out on the beach after his battle with Ursula.
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The Little Mermaid / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The Little Mermaid / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: The movie looks like it's set in the 18th century. That doesn't prevent Chef Louis from making random Gay Paree references that wouldn't be possible until the 1920s-1930s, including "Maurice Chevalier". The Champs-Élysées avenue of Paris was not yet a staple of the image foreigners have of Paris or France.
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The Little Mermaid / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Little Mermaid / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: The DVD Commentary notes that the scenes of Ariel posed on the rock were based on the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen. Ursula tosses a tongue-looking thing into her cauldron (see "Visual Pun" below). In the original story, the little mermaid's tongue was cut out before she became human. Attina, one of Ariel's sisters, was named after an obscure previous Alan Menken musical, Atina: Evil Queen of the Galaxy.
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The Little Mermaid / int_26bccc6e	type	Ash Face
The Little Mermaid / int_26bccc6e	comment	Ash Face: Sir Grimsby, after Ariel blows through his pipe.
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The Little Mermaid / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
The Little Mermaid / int_2740531a	comment	She Cleans Up Nicely: Eric first sees Ariel in human form when she's wrapped tarp around her body. When Carlotta dresses her in a pink dinner gown, they're delighted to see how she looks.
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The Little Mermaid / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
The Little Mermaid / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: "Vanessa" to the landfolk, and Ursula in her regular form to the seafolk. Her entire Villain Song is about how she is only trying to help “poor unfortunate souls” like Ariel, when in reality she is using her clients to try to take over Atlantica.
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The Little Mermaid / int_27a58d30	type	Carnivore Confusion
The Little Mermaid / int_27a58d30	comment	Carnivore Confusion: The main reason that King Triton and Sebastian don't like humans is because that they hunt and eat fish. This ignores the fact there are countless sea creatures that prey on other sea life. Even ignoring the shark that tried to eat Ariel and Flounder, Under the Sea featured plenty of aquatic life that get most of their meals through predation, including crustaceans like Sebastian.
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The Little Mermaid / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
The Little Mermaid / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Scuttle, about knowledge of human life.
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The Little Mermaid / int_2969dda7	type	Nightmare Fetishist
The Little Mermaid / int_2969dda7	comment	Nightmare Fetishist: Ariel's love of the human world, by merfolk standards.
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The Little Mermaid / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
The Little Mermaid / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Ariel has no mother, and while he's not evil, her father is so misguided in his attempts to protect her that she feels emotionally abandoned. Eric seemingly has no parents whatsoever and was possibly raised by Grimsby.
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The Little Mermaid / int_29a9366f	type	Mermaid Arc Emergence
The Little Mermaid / int_29a9366f	comment	Mermaid Arc Emergence: Occurs when a human Ariel emerges from the sea and desperately gasps for air after almost drowning in Ursula's lair, throwing her head back causing her hair to flip in a backward arc.
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The Little Mermaid / int_2ab79021	type	Emerging from the Shadows
The Little Mermaid / int_2ab79021	comment	Emerging from the Shadows: How Ursula was introduced whilst spying on Ariel and Flounder via crystal bubble, before lamenting on her banishment. King Triton does this when confronting Ariel in her secret grotto.
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The Little Mermaid / int_2abb2153	type	Old-Fashioned Rowboat Date
The Little Mermaid / int_2abb2153	comment	Old-Fashioned Rowboat Date: Invoked as part of the song "Kiss the Girl".
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The Little Mermaid / int_2ad3eb22	type	You Can Talk?
The Little Mermaid / int_2ad3eb22	comment	You Can Talk?: Eric is surprised when the shell is shattered and Ariel gets her voice back, as she had been up until then seemingly completely mute. He realizes she's the girl who saved him.
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The Little Mermaid / int_2b8a34a0	type	No Cartoon Fish
The Little Mermaid / int_2b8a34a0	comment	No Cartoon Fish: Interestingly zigzagged. While there are of course plenty of cartoon fish in this movie, all dead fish are drawn realistically. The fish caught in the net in the first scene all look realistic, but when the sailor picks one up and waves it around in front of Grimsby's face, it alternates between realistic and cartoony before settling on cartoony after it's released back into the water.
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The Little Mermaid / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Little Mermaid / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Ursula may have had some sanity to manipulate factors in her favor, but Vanessa, Ursula's disguise? Hoo boy, is she a complete nutcase. Just look at her actions during "Vanessa's song" as well as her reactions when the attack of the animals occurred, and you'll see how she's become completely insane.
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The Little Mermaid / int_2d92c43c	type	Little "No"
The Little Mermaid / int_2d92c43c	comment	Little "No": King Triton, after Ariel confesses her love for Eric during their argument. Later in the climax, Ariel, after Ursula turns Triton into a polyp and picks up the crown and the trident.
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The Little Mermaid / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Little Mermaid / int_3114c1e5	comment	Ramming Always Works: Well, how else are you going to take on the giant sea monster when you don't have any cannons (or wizards)?
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The Little Mermaid / int_31387558	type	Hollywood Kiss
The Little Mermaid / int_31387558	comment	Hollywood Kiss: Ariel and Eric.
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The Little Mermaid / int_32a1f455	type	Alliterative Family
The Little Mermaid / int_32a1f455	comment	Alliterative Family: Alana, Adella, Aquata, Attina, Arista, Andrina, Ariel and their mother Athena.
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The Little Mermaid / int_33310c11	type	Under the Sea
The Little Mermaid / int_33310c11	comment	Under the Sea: Although it's about video games, this is the Trope Namer. On the other hand, it IS the main setting in most Little Mermaid video games.
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The Little Mermaid / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Little Mermaid / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The little mermaid's grandmother, who helped the sea king raise his daughters after their mother died in the original story, is not in the movie. The princess that Eric fell in love with in the original story is removed (although Ursula, disguised as Vanessa, plays a very similar role). The daughters of the air are not present in the movie either.
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The Little Mermaid / int_34bd7be2	type	Super Drowning Skills
The Little Mermaid / int_34bd7be2	comment	Super Drowning Skills: As soon as Ariel turns human, almost every scene involving her and water goes...poorly until Flounder and Sebastian help her out.
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The Little Mermaid / int_34dcfc96	type	KickTheDog
The Little Mermaid / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: In human form, Ursula kicks Max — and he comes back to bite her in the butt.
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The Little Mermaid / int_34ee71e3	type	Purple Eyes
The Little Mermaid / int_34ee71e3	comment	Purple Eyes: Vanessa.
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The Little Mermaid / int_3577923b	type	Murder by Mistake
The Little Mermaid / int_3577923b	comment	Murder by Mistake: Flotsam and Jetsam are vaporized after Ursula's attempt to kill Prince Eric goes awry.
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The Little Mermaid / int_35e077	type	Fourth-Date Marriage
The Little Mermaid / int_35e077	comment	Fourth Date Marriage: Ariel and Eric play this straight, but if you go by previous Disney Princess standards, they avert it. Snow White barely even speaks to her Prince, Cinderella spends maybe a couple of hours with hers (and they don't speak enough for her to know he is the Prince), and Aurora exchanges maybe three sentences and a quick dance with Philip. Ariel and Eric spend a full day together touring the kingdom, taking in the sights, going to local festivals and such, and finishing off with an Old-Fashioned Rowboat Date. Eric was even about to give up pining for the girl who rescued him in favor of Ariel (not realizing it was Ariel) before Ursula interfered, so they definitely really liked each other even after spending time together.
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The Little Mermaid / int_35e2fb78	type	The Mirror Shows Your True Self
The Little Mermaid / int_35e2fb78	comment	The Mirror Shows Your True Self: Scuttle discovers Vanessa is actually Ursula when he sees the reflection she casts in a mirror.
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The Little Mermaid / int_371854f1	type	Chekhov's Army
The Little Mermaid / int_371854f1	comment	Chekhov's Army: Scuttle recruits the animals who helped Sebastian in "Kiss the Girl" to stall the wedding. The flamingoes and birds fly to the rescue.
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The Little Mermaid / int_3722d66c	type	Hold Your Hippogriffs
The Little Mermaid / int_3722d66c	comment	Hold Your Hippogriffs: "You're not getting cold fins (feet) now, are you?" "You are such a guppy (baby/chicken)!" "You give them an inch, they'll swim (walk) all over you." "The seaweed (grass) is always greener / In somebody else's lake (lawn)!" "Someone needs to nail that girl's fins (feet) to the floor." "It's time Ursula took matters into her own tentacles (hands)!" "Leave no shell (stone) unturned, no coral (corner) unexplored!"
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The Little Mermaid / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
The Little Mermaid / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: As Sebastian is trying to get away from Chef Louis, he drops a frying pan on Louis' foot. Averted by Ariel; in the Hans Christian Andersen version of the story, the little mermaid was in agony with each step she took. Ariel's new legs are very shaky initially, but there isn't any indication that they hurt her.
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The Little Mermaid / int_38f3321	type	Compelling Voice
The Little Mermaid / int_38f3321	comment	Compelling Voice: How Ursula brainwashes Eric. Special mention must be made to the fact that it isn't even her voice that brainwashes him but his love interest's, Ariel.
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The Little Mermaid / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Little Mermaid / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Ariel was always fascinated by humanity, but after an encounter with Eric proves her right about humans being more than mindless monsters - that they can be good, kind, brave people - she learns to stay true to herself and what she believes in, even if it means clashing with her family. She also learns her reckless actions have greater consequences than she expected. After risking danger for the sake of discovery for the entire movie, Ariel finally bites off more than she can chew when she loses her wager with Ursula and the sea witch betrays her. Ariel is forced to watch as Ursula enslaves her father, tries to take over the sea, and tries to kill her and all her friends. To a lesser extent, she's scared of Max for half the movie due to him being a giant dog, but she learns that he's more cuddle than bite. When she gets her voice back and Max runs to her, Ariel doesn't flinch or attempt to run. King Triton gets a sizable amount of character development when he realizes being so hard on Ariel just ended up driving her away from him, and when Eric saves his daughter's life from Ursula, it allows him to overcome his xenophobia of humans and realize that it's for the better that he lets Ariel stay with Eric. Sebastian get a lot of character growth too. He spends the first half of the movie obsessing about how what Ariel does will affect him, and in fact rats her out to Triton because he's afraid of Triton punishing him. After seeing the horror Ariel goes through as a result and getting nearly served for dinner by Chef Louis, he decides to make Ariel happy and spends the rest of the movie trying to help her. Fittingly enough, both Triton and Sebastian's character development is underlined in a conversation between them.
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The Little Mermaid / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Little Mermaid / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Ursula states that she once lived in the palace, indicating she must have held a high status in Triton's court, but at some point she was banished and exiled for life - but we're never told what she did to earn such a punishment. Also, Eric asks Grim this "You're not still sore, cause I didn't fall for the Princess of Glowerhaven, are you?"
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The Little Mermaid / int_3d134824	type	Letter Motif
The Little Mermaid / int_3d134824	comment	Letter Motif: Ariel and all of her sisters have the same first initial — as did their mother. (See Theme Naming, below.)
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The Little Mermaid / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Little Mermaid / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Ariel goes off to be with Eric but leaves her father and sisters behind. However, they still apparently do keep in touch, and compared to the original story's ending, this is quite mild.
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The Little Mermaid / int_41aebb4a	type	Marilyn Maneuver
The Little Mermaid / int_41aebb4a	comment	Marilyn Maneuver: A disguised Ursula's (as Vanessa) wedding dress receives a draft from a flock of bluebirds as they fly underneath her.
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The Little Mermaid / int_41d9aaef	type	Brainwashed
The Little Mermaid / int_41d9aaef	comment	Brainwashed: Ursula-as-"Vanessa" does this to Eric to torture Ariel.
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The Little Mermaid / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
The Little Mermaid / int_41dd77d	comment	"Vanessa" does a big one as a big flock of birds speed towards her.
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The Little Mermaid / int_4215e705	type	Graceful Ladies Like Purple
The Little Mermaid / int_4215e705	comment	Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Ariel's seashell bra, and her dress in the sequel are purple.
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The Little Mermaid / int_422cefe3	type	True Blue Femininity
The Little Mermaid / int_422cefe3	comment	True Blue Femininity: When Eric is showing Ariel around his land, she wears a dress with a blue skirt, and a large, blue hair ribbon.
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The Little Mermaid / int_424d15ad	type	Love Hurts
The Little Mermaid / int_424d15ad	comment	Love Hurts: Much less than in the original version, though Ariel's pain is obvious when she thinks Eric is going to leave her and marry "Vanessa".
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The Little Mermaid / int_4353c4b7	type	Magically-Binding Contract
The Little Mermaid / int_4353c4b7	comment	Magically Binding Contract: The one Ariel signs with Ursula currently provides the page image and quote; when Triton tries to destroy it with his trident, it doesn't work. As it turns out, the only thing that can break Ursula's contracts is her demise — once she dies, all the polyps in her garden return to their natural forms.
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The Little Mermaid / int_4388c985	type	Fade Around the Eyes
The Little Mermaid / int_4388c985	comment	Fade Around the Eyes: Ursula does this at the end of her first scene. The image of her tentacles curling around her as the screen fades to black can be very frightening. It currently provides the page image. She does it again in the scene when she transforms into her disguise as Vanessa, but instead of her eyes, she does it with her teeth and the shell on her necklace as smoke fills her lair.
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The Little Mermaid / int_438cb385	type	Overprotective Dad
The Little Mermaid / int_438cb385	comment	Overprotective Dad: Triton destroys almost everything Ariel cares about because of this, but in the end he becomes a Papa Wolf.
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The Little Mermaid / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
The Little Mermaid / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Meta example. While composer Alan Menken had a great deal of experience writing stage music for Howard Ashman's lyrics, this film was his first attempt to write a background score for a feature film. According to the DVD Commentary, he sought out advice from fellow composers, who essentially told him "It's a cartoon. Nobody cares, blow it off." Menken decided not to take their advice... and won an Oscar for Best Original Score.
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The Little Mermaid / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
The Little Mermaid / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: King Triton is initially like this when he confronts Ariel in her grotto.
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The Little Mermaid / int_4469577f	type	Hypocritical Singing
The Little Mermaid / int_4469577f	comment	Hypocritical Singing: "Poor Unfortunate Souls" in a slight variation. Ursula, while trying to get Ariel to make a deal with her, sings about how she uses her powers to help people. Of course, these deals are always a lot more profitable to her than to any of her beneficiaries, mainly because she goes out of her way to ensure that those under contract can't hold up their end of the bargain.
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The Little Mermaid / int_46118dc5	type	Adult Fear
The Little Mermaid / int_46118dc5	comment	Furthermore, he says that in anger when his youngest, somewhat favourite daughter, had just professed her love for an unknown human being and her wish to leave home (possibly forever) to stay with him. Cue Adult Fear here: you're a single father of a bunch of girls. Someone killed their mother when the youngest, the one who resembles her the most, was naught than a little girl. She grows to be an happy, adjusted but somewhat ditsy, fine teenager, and one day she gets home in love with someone. You're just overjoyed, proud of the job you did without your beloved wife around... and then your daughter loudly proclaims she has fallen in love with someone you believe the cause of every affliction in your life, coming from the same background of the ones killing your own wife, who'll treat your little girl no one knows how and who'll never, ever let you keep protecting her.
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The Little Mermaid / int_46290b93	type	Manic Pixie Dream Girl
The Little Mermaid / int_46290b93	comment	Manic Pixie Dream Girl: From Eric's perspective, anyway; the actual movie itself averts this. The girl Prince Eric encounters on the beach is the 'dream girl'; the girl who uses a fork to comb her hair and jumps a carriage over a ravine is the 'manic pixie'. Only at the end does Eric realize they're one and the same.
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The Little Mermaid / int_462e2f79	type	The Outside World
The Little Mermaid / int_462e2f79	comment	The Outside World: Ariel is fascinated by the world above the ocean surface, particularly in humans to the point that she falls in love with one, and makes a Deal with the Devil to get the chance to live up there.
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The Little Mermaid / int_48429bb5	type	Curtain Clothing
The Little Mermaid / int_48429bb5	comment	Curtain Clothing: Ariel attempts to make a dress from a sail on a wrecked ship with Scuttle's advice. The result is more comical than anything, though Eric doesn't notice. Carlotta discreetly washes and disposes of it, giving Ariel actual clothes.
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The Little Mermaid / int_487b1e5b	type	Marry for Love
The Little Mermaid / int_487b1e5b	comment	Marry for Love: Eric intends to do this.
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The Little Mermaid / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
The Little Mermaid / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: Ariel has only three days to get a kiss from Eric and remain human permanently, otherwise she'll turn back into a mermaid.
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The Little Mermaid / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
The Little Mermaid / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Unable to take the now gargantuan Ursula in an even fight, Eric instead uses the raised wreck of the ship he's pulled himself onto to ram its splintered prow clean through her.
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The Little Mermaid / int_4a5fcde	type	Adaptational Alternate Ending
The Little Mermaid / int_4a5fcde	comment	Adaptational Alternate Ending: The mermaid gets to marry the prince and live Happily Ever After. In the original story by Hans Christian Andersen, she dies after refusing to kill the prince, and becomes an air spirit.
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The Little Mermaid / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
The Little Mermaid / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: King Triton.
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The Little Mermaid / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
The Little Mermaid / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: Whilst Triton is extremely harsh in the way he tried to cut down Ariel's human obsession the fact remains is that he has some extremely good reasons for trying to protect his daughter. Warfare, pollution and the stuffed crab Sebastian runs into are all perfect examples of this. Not to mention all the hundreds of diseases that a Mermaid's human half could potentially contract from humans: syphilis, smallpox and plague would fit the general setting of this film (approximately the 16th to 17th century given the look of the ships). The prequel gives the best reason of all for his actions — his wife was killed by a human ship.
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The Little Mermaid / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
The Little Mermaid / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: Although Ursula usually does Evil Laughs, her laughter when gloating about her inevitable victory as Vanessa is closer to Laughing Mad.
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The Little Mermaid / int_4ae72307	type	Be Yourself
The Little Mermaid / int_4ae72307	comment	Be Yourself: A bit of an Unbuilt Trope, since Ariel being herself means she literally can't be with the man of her dreams, but her Deal with the Devil to live on land robs her of her voice, the only means by which she could have told Eric who she was.
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The Little Mermaid / int_4aed206f	type	Exact Eavesdropping
The Little Mermaid / int_4aed206f	comment	Exact Eavesdropping: Scuttle happens to be flying by when Ursula, disguised as Vanessa, sings her evil plot, and he sees Ursula’s true reflection in the mirror.
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The Little Mermaid / int_4c3f14e0	type	You Are Too Late
The Little Mermaid / int_4c3f14e0	comment	You Are Too Late: Pointed out by Ursula when the heroes arrive too late to complete Ariel's contract.
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The Little Mermaid / int_4e7bdeff	type	Loves Me Not
The Little Mermaid / int_4e7bdeff	comment	Loves Me Not: With an underwater flower.
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The Little Mermaid / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Little Mermaid / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Said by Ariel during an argument with Triton about saving Eric's life: Ursula tells Ariel exactly the thing she wants to hear: "The only way to get what you want is to become a human yourself."
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The Little Mermaid / int_4ec68237	type	Unfortunate Character Design
The Little Mermaid / int_4ec68237	comment	invoked The elderly preacher's knees, way more so.
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The Little Mermaid / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
The Little Mermaid / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: After arguing with Ariel over her fascination with humans and destroying her grotto, Triton tries to repair the damage done and regain her trust by taking Ariel's place as Ursula's prisoner.
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The Little Mermaid / int_4fb60159	type	Do Not Do This Cool Thing
The Little Mermaid / int_4fb60159	comment	Do Not Do This Cool Thing: In-Universe. According to Word of God, Ariel's fascination with the human world (at least partially) actually came out of her father's strict forbidding of it.
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The Little Mermaid / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
The Little Mermaid / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: As Ursula is about to do in Ariel with the trident, she bellows, "SO MUCH FOR TRUE LOVE!!!" Only a split second later, Ursula gets killed when Eric impales her on the bowsprit of a sunken ship, which also somehow causes the trident to backfire on her.
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The Little Mermaid / int_53c47260	type	You Monster!
The Little Mermaid / int_53c47260	comment	You Monster!: Ariel to Ursula, once King Triton gets transformed into a polyp.
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The Little Mermaid / int_54321e11	type	Innocent Fanservice Girl
The Little Mermaid / int_54321e11	comment	Innocent Fanservice Girl: Ariel. When she first becomes human, the only thing she's wearing is her Seashell Bra. Not having much knowledge of clothes, who knows how much longer she would have went naked without care if Scuttle hadn't given her that old sail.
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The Little Mermaid / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
The Little Mermaid / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: With Ursula as a major villain in its Season 4 arc, Live Action Disney owned show "Once Upon A Time" also went this route◊ not only making live action Ursula attractive in her current Octopus-woman state, but also showing her to have once been a very beautiful mermaid◊ before she became evil.
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The Little Mermaid / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
The Little Mermaid / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: To denote that Scuttle is about to bring the pain, Sebastian orders him seriously to "Stall the wedding!" without his usual eye-rolling
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The Little Mermaid / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The Little Mermaid / int_5707e92c	comment	Feather Fingers: Notable in that the fish characters avert the "fish can walk on their tailfins" subtrope until the "Under the Sea" number, where it looks awkward. Scuttle doesn't exactly avoid the Trope Namer either.
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The Little Mermaid / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Little Mermaid / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: King Triton toward humans. When Ariel points out that he's judging Eric without knowing him, he declares "Know him?! I don't have to know him! They're all the same!" Exposition removed from the original movie, but added back into the musical and the prequel, reveals that Ariel's mother was killed by humans (well, ran over by a pirate ship), making Triton's paranoia about them somewhat more sympathetic. Furthermore, he says that in anger when his youngest, somewhat favourite daughter, had just professed her love for an unknown human being and her wish to leave home (possibly forever) to stay with him. Cue Adult Fear here: you're a single father of a bunch of girls. Someone killed their mother when the youngest, the one who resembles her the most, was naught than a little girl. She grows to be an happy, adjusted but somewhat ditsy, fine teenager, and one day she gets home in love with someone. You're just overjoyed, proud of the job you did without your beloved wife around... and then your daughter loudly proclaims she has fallen in love with someone you believe the cause of every affliction in your life, coming from the same background of the ones killing your own wife, who'll treat your little girl no one knows how and who'll never, ever let you keep protecting her.
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The Little Mermaid / int_590f44cd	type	Improvised Clothes
The Little Mermaid / int_590f44cd	comment	Improvised Clothes: Ariel's first dress is an old sail strategically tied up with rope.
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The Little Mermaid / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
The Little Mermaid / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Un-Reveal: It is not mentioned at one point why King Triton forbids Ariel going to the surface. The prequel film implies otherwise, as his mother was crushed to death by a ship while above water.
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The Little Mermaid / int_5ac34441	type	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
The Little Mermaid / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Scuttle, the supposed "expert" on human culture, has no actual clue about the intended purposes of the objects Ariel brings him to identify, and simply assigns them made-up names and makes his best guess as to their proper use, with the result that Ariel calls a dinner fork a "dinglehopper" and uses it as a comb, and believes a pipe is a musical instrument called a "snarfblatt". Though, oddly, she knows to put the fork together with the knife and spoon in her treasure trove.
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The Little Mermaid / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
The Little Mermaid / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Averted quite horrifically for a kid's film. To put it simply, Flotsam and Jetsam were electrocuted and disintegrated by a misfire from the Trident, and Ursula was impaled by a broken bow of the ship, electrocuted due to the Trident's blast backfiring on her, sinking, and then exploding. In both cases, the animators even went as far as to detail all of their pieces sinking down to the ocean floor. In fact, only one character, Ariel, actually ended up falling down a very huge height, and she survived.
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The Little Mermaid / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
The Little Mermaid / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly SHOUTING!: When Sebastian discovers Ariel's collection in the grotto, he shouts, "IF YOUR FATHER KNEW ABOUT THIS PLACE, HE'D...", but Flounder cuts him off.
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The Little Mermaid / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
The Little Mermaid / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Ariel as the protagonist and Ursula as the villain. All of the supporting cast are male, making it a 6:2 male-to-female ratio. Ariel's sisters have no importance and Carlotta the maid has only a handful of lines.
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The Little Mermaid / int_5da37ab5	type	Triumphant Reprise
The Little Mermaid / int_5da37ab5	comment	Triumphant Reprise: One of the most iconic scenes in the film, just after Ariel rescues Eric, and vows to return to him on land someday. A second reprise of "Part of Your World" plays over Ariel and Eric's wedding. Additionally the original ending would have had Ariel appearing in human form singing the Triumphant Reprise herself. A smaller one; Ariel sings a solemn chorus so that Ursula can steal her voice and hypnotise Eric. When the shell breaks and Ariel's voice is returned to her, she sings a more triumphant version of the chorus.
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The Little Mermaid / int_5dd880f5	type	Cave Mouth
The Little Mermaid / int_5dd880f5	comment	Cave Mouth: The front door of Ursula's lair is the mouth of a sea-dragon.
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The Little Mermaid / int_5e01640d	type	X-Ray Sparks
The Little Mermaid / int_5e01640d	comment	X-Ray Sparks: Occurs during Ursula's death.
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The Little Mermaid / int_5fd14ab3	type	Sacred Hospitality
The Little Mermaid / int_5fd14ab3	comment	Sacred Hospitality: Downplayed since she has ulterior motives, but Ursula doesn't physically harm Ariel, Sebastian or Flounder when they visit her lair. While the eels shut up Sebastian when he tells Ariel not to take the deal, it's not physically binding for long. Eric takes Ariel to the castle to get cleaned up on seeing she's mute, alone, and scared on the beach thanks to Max chasing her. It's also why he doesn't want to kiss her the next day since she's technically his guest, since he is the one with the power, but he gives in on hearing her name.
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The Little Mermaid / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
The Little Mermaid / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: The Broadway musical adaptation removes the Vanessa subplot, replacing it with a contest scene where several princesses compete for Eric's affection through singing. Also, during the climax, Ursula never grows into a giant beast once she gets the trident, as it would've been impossible to pull off onstage (this means that there's no final battle between Eric and Ursula; instead, Ariel is the one that kills her).
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The Little Mermaid / int_614ab353	type	Witch with a Capital "B"
The Little Mermaid / int_614ab353	comment	Witch with a Capital B
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The Little Mermaid / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Little Mermaid / int_617f0563	comment	King Triton is subject to a bit of this as well. In the original story the sea king was neutral as well and the mermaid sought out the sea witch on her own. The film has Triton despise humans and forbid his daughter from any contact with them—even destroying her collection of artifacts to try and stop her. Of course he undergoes a Heel–Face Turn pretty quickly.
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The Little Mermaid / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
The Little Mermaid / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Ursula, while not a good character, was sane and composed during most of the film. However, when she transforms into Vanessa, it's implied that she lost quite a bit of sanity (to the point of becoming a borderline Ax-Crazy) when turning into her, as she talks to her mirror in a manner similar to a schizophrenic, emits a psychotic grin when throwing a pin at a mirror's head with enough velocity to knock the mirror back, and most certainly kill a person had that been a human being, plus her cackling. The whole reason for Ursula resorting to her Vanessa alterego was counteracting Sebastian's proactive plan to have Ariel seduce Eric. Basically, she got her arms twisted into action, with all the consequent pressure.
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The Little Mermaid / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Little Mermaid / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: After Ariel's transformation, as Sebastian and Flounder begin rushing her to the surface, there are a few frames where you can see Ariel's butt, and the area between her legs.
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The Little Mermaid / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
The Little Mermaid / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Prince Eric.
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The Little Mermaid / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Little Mermaid / int_6439de78	comment	Triton when he blames himself for Ariel's disappearance, given the way he acted. This foreshadows his eventual Heroic Sacrifice to being Ursula's prisoner instead of Ariel.
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The Little Mermaid / int_6448ac10	type	Did You Get a New Haircut?
The Little Mermaid / int_6448ac10	comment	Did You Get a New Haircut?: Scuttle asks Ariel this after she is turned into a human the first time, then if she had new seashells. Sebastian replies with "she's got legs, you idiot!" As Scuttle's doing this, he's standing on her legs and leaning on her toes!!! She's even bobbing him up and down by kicking her leg slightly, trying to clue him in.
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The Little Mermaid / int_64f3ea6e	type	Disneyfication
The Little Mermaid / int_64f3ea6e	comment	Disneyfication: One of the most iconic (albeit also successful) examples of the trope. The Bittersweet Ending of the book is now a clear happy ending, trading her voice is substituted for having her tongue cut out, and Ariel's fate if she fails doesn't involve death. Also, in the original story, the sea witch was a True Neutral character. In the movie, she's named Ursula and upgraded to the Big Bad.
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The Little Mermaid / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
The Little Mermaid / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Howard Ashman asked the production team to make Sebastian Jamaican just because he wanted to write calypso songs. Samuel E. Wright, being a native from South Carolina did an almost completely convincing Jamaican accent for the crab.
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The Little Mermaid / int_66771842	type	Sliding Scale of Animal Communication
The Little Mermaid / int_66771842	comment	Sliding Scale of Animal Communication: Zig-zagged. The merpeople communicate fully with the sea animals, and Ariel maintains that ability once she becomes human, but she cannot communicate with Max. Regular humans cannot understand animals, except when Eric understands Sebastian whispering Ariel’s name during “Kiss the Girl.” But animals can largely understand humans.
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The Little Mermaid / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
The Little Mermaid / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: Ursula does one about every five minutes.
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The Little Mermaid / int_6858aca8	type	Punctuated Pounding
The Little Mermaid / int_6858aca8	comment	Punctuated Pounding: "DO YOU HEAR WHAT I'M TELLIN' YOU? The Prince! Is MARRYING! The Sea Witch! in DISGUISE!" All while Scuttle has grabbed Sebastian and is slamming him into the dock.
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The Little Mermaid / int_69c32caa	type	Unscaled Merfolk
The Little Mermaid / int_69c32caa	comment	Unscaled Merfolk: Ursula, being half octopus (a cecelia).
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The Little Mermaid / int_6a1cbf28	type	Rebellious Princess
The Little Mermaid / int_6a1cbf28	comment	Rebellious Princess: Ariel fits this to a T. She's pretty much the Trope Codifier, at least for Disney's near-constant use of this trope ever since.
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The Little Mermaid / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Little Mermaid / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Sebastian's frustrations with Ariel are understandable. As the court composer, it's his job to make sure that his concerts go according to plan. She's a no-show for rehearsals and her big debut, defies orders from her father to stay away from humans that eat up sea creatures like Sebasttian, and doesn't appreciate what she has in the ocean. When Sebastian tells her off, he isn't nice about it, but he's also very correct.
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The Little Mermaid / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
The Little Mermaid / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: King Triton flies into a destructive fit of blind rage when Ariel tells him that she's in love with Eric.
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The Little Mermaid / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Little Mermaid / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: "Eric" is an Old Norse name that can mean "One Ruler", "Lone Ruler" or "Lone Prince", which is what he is in the beginning of the film. Ariel is Hebrew for "Lion of God" and is derived from one of God's Archangels. It's also the name of the air-spirit servant in The Tempest—appropriate for the mermaid who's bent on leaving the water and living an air-breathing existence. Vanessa's name is derived from the Latin word "Vanitas", which means among other things Vanity, Worthlessness, Emptiness, and Nothingness. The first meaning is more than a little obvious, but the remaining three meanings also have a place in it as well, as it highlights the fact that Vanessa is Eric's false savior.
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The Little Mermaid / int_6e429667	type	Fantastic Slurs
The Little Mermaid / int_6e429667	comment	Fantastic Slurs: To go with King Triton's Fantastic Racism towards humans, humans are referred as "Fish-eaters" (which is kind of justified, considering that to the merfolk, the fish are sentient).
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The Little Mermaid / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
The Little Mermaid / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: Ariel in the prequel.
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The Little Mermaid / int_6fbe85e6	type	Adaptation Personality Change
The Little Mermaid / int_6fbe85e6	comment	Adaptation Personality Change: Literally, as in two mermaids change personalities—the most distinguishing traits of Andersen's heroine were that she was thoughtful, quiet, and pensive (quite unlike Ariel), and one of her sisters is actually said to be by far the most daring and boldest of the family (quite like Ariel).
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The Little Mermaid / int_704d7e91	type	No Ontological Inertia
The Little Mermaid / int_704d7e91	comment	No Ontological Inertia: Ursula's prisoners are freed when she dies.
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The Little Mermaid / int_7095340b	type	SeashellBra
The Little Mermaid / int_7095340b	comment	Seashell Bra: Made of what appear to be purple clamshells. Also of note is that the sixteen-year old Ariel was the first Disney character designed and animated in a way that showed the line of her cleavage.
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The Little Mermaid / int_70bdac19	type	Honest John's Dealership
The Little Mermaid / int_70bdac19	comment	Honest John's Dealership: As seen and heard in "Poor Unfortunate Souls", Ursula has been known to make these kinds of deals with others.
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The Little Mermaid / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
The Little Mermaid / int_71748a39	comment	Named by the Adaptation: None of the characters in the original fairy tale (the little mermaid, the prince, the sea king, the sea witch, etc.) have names.
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The Little Mermaid / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
The Little Mermaid / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: Ursula agrees that if Ariel becomes human then the latter won't see her family, but she'll have her man: "Life has tough choices in it." Even though Ariel at the end becomes human thanks to Triton letting her go, she will still have a life on land far apart from her father and sisters.
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The Little Mermaid / int_72b4977e	type	Limb-Sensation Fascination
The Little Mermaid / int_72b4977e	comment	Limb-Sensation Fascination: One of the most important events is Ariel's transformation into a human. The film focuses briefly on her feet and how she's excited to have toes she can wriggle.
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The Little Mermaid / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
The Little Mermaid / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: While Ariel was completely aware of what she was getting into when she made a Deal with the Devil with Ursula, she didn't know that Ursula was using her as a pawn to become the ruler of Atlantica. As quoted by the 2004 Disney Princess storybook:
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The Little Mermaid / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Little Mermaid / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: The mermaid in Andersen's Fairy Tale died, although her soul remains in what amounts to Purgatory, and for every good child she observes, she gets closer to entering Heaven, but for every bad, disobedient child, the process will take longer.
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The Little Mermaid / int_757bbdb8	type	Massive Numbered Siblings
The Little Mermaid / int_757bbdb8	comment	Massive Numbered Siblings: Ariel has six older sisters: Aquata, Andrina, Arista, Attina, Adella, and Alana.
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The Little Mermaid / int_776c56ec	type	The Burlesque of Venus
The Little Mermaid / int_776c56ec	comment	The Burlesque of Venus: Played with in the "Daughters of Triton" musical segment, although with 2 mermaids per shell and not one... except for Ariel's shell, of which she was missing.
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The Little Mermaid / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
The Little Mermaid / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: Ursula has only six tentacles instead of the traditional eight because of budget issues. Though if you include her arms, she does have eight limbs.
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The Little Mermaid / int_792fef74	type	Cute, but Cacophonic
The Little Mermaid / int_792fef74	comment	Cute, but Cacophonic: "Vanessa", once she loses possession of Ariel's voice.
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The Little Mermaid / int_7bc076de	type	Hartman Hips
The Little Mermaid / int_7bc076de	comment	Hartman Hips: While in her "Vanessa" form, the usually-obese Ursula is a lot more slender and elegant in her appearance, though her lower half is quite curvaceous.
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The Little Mermaid / int_7bc0a5e5	type	Purple Is the New Black
The Little Mermaid / int_7bc0a5e5	comment	Purple Is the New Black: A major color for Ursula.
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The Little Mermaid / int_7c7589af	type	Earth-Shattering Kaboom
The Little Mermaid / int_7c7589af	comment	Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Exactly how a globe first explodes after King Triton fires an energy bolt from his trident in Ariel's grotto, along with the rest of Ariel's human treasures (it's something he quickly regrets).
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The Little Mermaid / int_7c77081d	type	Language Equals Thought
The Little Mermaid / int_7c77081d	comment	Language Equals Thought: Although land and sea share a common language note (see Aliens Speaking English) Part Of Your World implies merpeople lack the vocabulary for a number of concepts meaningless underwater — concepts Ariel strives to acquire regardless, much like her collection of land artifacts.
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The Little Mermaid / int_7c9933de	type	Laughably Evil
The Little Mermaid / int_7c9933de	comment	Laughably Evil: The movie does well to balance Ursula's sadistic and sinister ambience with lots of brilliant snarking and scenery chewing courtesy of Pat Carrol.
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The Little Mermaid / int_7ccd3698	type	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
The Little Mermaid / int_7ccd3698	comment	Attack Of the 50 Foot Sea Monster: Ursula in the climax.
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The Little Mermaid / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
The Little Mermaid / int_7e6c0522	comment	Sebastian again when he finds himself face to face with the kitchen's contents, including stuffed crabs. Cue faint. Then once more when he sees Chef Louie and nearly throws up. Then again when he runs into a dismembered fish head. As a matter of fact, Sebastian does an Oh, Crap! look virtually every five seconds in this part of the film as he gets noticed; every example would require its own page (along with Louie when the jig ends).
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The Little Mermaid / int_7ea2a915	type	Animation Bump
The Little Mermaid / int_7ea2a915	comment	Animation Bump: Ariel in the hands of Glen Keane. During "Part of Your World" and its reprise, as well as the first meeting between Eric and Ariel after she's traded away her voice, the level of detail is noticeably higher, especially in her hair.
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The Little Mermaid / int_7eb49b31	type	Almost Kiss
The Little Mermaid / int_7eb49b31	comment	Almost Kiss: Ariel and Eric almost kiss when he realizes the truth, but the spell turning Ariel back into a mermaid cuts them short.
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The Little Mermaid / int_7ec8506d	type	Animal Talk
The Little Mermaid / int_7ec8506d	comment	Animal Talk: The majority of the marine animals, including Sebastian and Flounder and Flotsam and Jetsam, are capable of speech, as well as Scuttle the seagull. Max is a notable Aversion.
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The Little Mermaid / int_7f152e56	type	Our Mermaids Are Different
The Little Mermaid / int_7f152e56	comment	Our Mermaids Are Different: Ariel definitely popularized mermaid characters for a generation. The filmmakers certainly claim that they subverted the blonde, otherworldly, mischievous archetype of the mermaid by creating a rebellious redheaded mermaid who was very human rather than fiery in character.
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The Little Mermaid / int_7f760614	type	The Silent Bob
The Little Mermaid / int_7f760614	comment	The Silent Bob: Ariel after becoming human.
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The Little Mermaid / int_7fa7b32e	type	Make My Monster Grow
The Little Mermaid / int_7fa7b32e	comment	Make My Monster Grow: Ursula in the climax.
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The Little Mermaid / int_823c6e3e	type	LargeHam
The Little Mermaid / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Ursula has a few of these moments. Whoo boy, whoever said "Right, Ursula is nuts, so we want you to go ABSOLUTELY CRACKERS!" to Pat Carroll made the best decision ever; here's the proof - "YOU POOR, UNFORTUNATE SOOOOOOUUULLLLLLLL!!!!!". For a better example, actually watch the song; wow! Disney went crackers... and it worked. Louie the chef. "Come out, you little pipsqueak and FIGHT LIKE A MAN!!" "Hee, hee, hee! Ho, ho ho!" You could say even Sebastian falls under this, too: "Well, [the concert] WAS RUINED! THAT'S ALL! COMPLETELY DESTROYED! (dramatic) This concert was to be the pinnacle of my distinguished career... (enraged) NOW THANKS TO YOU I AM THE LAUGHINGSTOCK OF THE ENTIRE KINGDOM!!!"
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The Little Mermaid / int_8338de89	type	"I Want" Song
The Little Mermaid / int_8338de89	comment	"I Want" Song: "Part Of Your World" in the original and "Her Voice" in the musical.
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The Little Mermaid / int_838343d6	type	Fairy Tale
The Little Mermaid / int_838343d6	comment	Fairy Tale
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The Little Mermaid / int_8513bc0f	type	Accidental Public Confession
The Little Mermaid / int_8513bc0f	comment	Accidental Public Confession: "Humans? Who said anything about humans?"
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The Little Mermaid / int_85832a47	type	Gay Paree
The Little Mermaid / int_85832a47	comment	Gay Paree: Chef Louis is, well, Hollywood's idea of a French cook. His sequence is introduced with accordion music (which is a cliché related to Paris), he has a Maurice Chevalier Accent, speaks about "Nouvelle Cuisine des Champs-Élysées" (the Champs-Élysées avenue is in Paris) and even names Maurice Chevalier.
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The Little Mermaid / int_86f4f393	type	Stating the Simple Solution
The Little Mermaid / int_86f4f393	comment	Stating the Simple Solution: Before Triton destroyed her grotto, Ariel's plan was to find out where Eric lived and go see him, while still in mermaid form, and using Flounder's splashing to get Eric's attention. As she realizes, however, as long as she's in the sea then she's in her father's domain and he would never allow that. Triton tries to destroy the contract with his trident on learning Ariel now belongs to Ursula. The paper remains intact, and Ursula gloats how a legally binding contract is beyond his power.
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The Little Mermaid / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Little Mermaid / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: During the "Kiss the Girl" sequence, flamingos are seen despite the setting being implied to be around Europe. In real-life, there are actually species of flamingos that are native to Southern Europe (The greater flamingos, which are also native to parts of Africa and South Asia). Likewise, the fireflies being in the lagoon is also of this trope, as they can exist in temperate environments as well as in marshes.
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The Little Mermaid / int_876c28ff	type	Excessive Evil Eyeshadow
The Little Mermaid / int_876c28ff	comment	Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: Ursula and her sister Morgana.
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The Little Mermaid / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
The Little Mermaid / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: Despite their personality conflicts, Ariel is Daddy's favorite. According to the DVD Commentary, the directors and producers were a little uncomfortable with the idea of a parent having a favorite child, but rationalized it out as Ariel being the most like her father in temperament. Also, she's the youngest daughter and the one more resembling her dead mother. Psychologically, she reminds Triton of his wife and, while her eldest sisters had, at least for a while, a mother and a father, Triton feels constantly the brunt of educating, caring and sheltering Ariel alone.note However, this was not part of the original filmmakers' considerations, as it was added in by the direct-to-video team two decades later.
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The Little Mermaid / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
The Little Mermaid / int_890d4ef2	comment	Normally Scuttle when telling Ariel "facts" about the human world is in a jovial tone, or at least she can figure out he's wrong instantly. When he flies to Ariel, Flounder and Sebastian after seeing Ursula's reflection in Vanessa's mirror, he's frantic and serious, quickly telling them "the prince is marrying the sea witch in disguise!" Even though Sebastian questions him, the trio realize that he's right, and that they have to get to the ship. Then when Sebastian orders Scuttle to stall the wedding, Scuttle calls all the sea creatures and birds he can find, to give Vanessa a Humiliation Conga and smash her shell.
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The Little Mermaid / int_898d0f32	type	Teeth Flying
The Little Mermaid / int_898d0f32	comment	Teeth Flying: At the end of the movie, Louis the chef loses a few teeth after getting hit on the face by a mast.
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The Little Mermaid / int_89937faf	type	Watching the Sunset
The Little Mermaid / int_89937faf	comment	Watching the Sunset
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The Little Mermaid / int_89a17726	type	Spell My Name with an S
The Little Mermaid / int_89a17726	comment	Spell My Name with an "S": Ariel's sister's name, Aquata, is clearly pronounced (and spelled, in the captions) AquaNta in "The Daughters of Triton" in the 1989 film. Also, concept artwork indicated that Vanessa's name was originally supposed to be spelled with an "e" instead of an "a" (meaning, it was intended to be spelled "Venessa").
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The Little Mermaid / int_8abec76d	type	Even the Dog Is Ashamed
The Little Mermaid / int_8abec76d	comment	Even the Dog Is Ashamed: Max gets annoyed at Prince Eric's cluelessness over whether or not the mute Ariel was the one he's been looking for.
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The Little Mermaid / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
The Little Mermaid / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: In Ariel's Beginning, Ariel joins Flounder, Sebastian, and the Catfish Club Band after escaping from Atlantica.
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The Little Mermaid / int_8b4f2a4f	type	'80s Hair
The Little Mermaid / int_8b4f2a4f	comment	'80s Hair: Ariel. Doubly impressive in that her hair is like that when she's out of the water and sopping wet. Not even the power of the ocean can defeat THAT volume. Underwater... well, hair spreads out underwater. This is why female scuba divers keep theirs short.
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The Little Mermaid / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Little Mermaid / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Subverted. After Ariel hears the deal about if she does or doesn't kiss Eric, she starts reasoning that if she becomes human, she'll never see her father or sisters again. Considering what Triton just did, it's very wise of her to factor this in to her decision. Ursula then points out, "But you'll have your man. Life has tough choices in it, heh-heh." Then when Ursula demands Ariel's voice as payment, Ariel immediately protests, "But without my voice, how can I-?" with the obvious concern that she won't get Eric to fall in love with her. Ursula interrupts with, "You've got your looks! Your pretty face!" and sings about how men prefer women to not talk. While Ariel impulsively signs the contract and runs into problems communicating with Eric, she did put some thought into what she was doing. Ursula gets this. She turns Ariel into a being that can't breathe water while Ariel's at the bottom of the sea. To make matters worse, Ariel can't swim as well in her human form and it's freezing in the ocean at that depth, so how was Ursula going to get Ariel to the surface if Sebastian and Flounder hadn't been watching?
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The Little Mermaid / int_8f900ccd	type	Overly Long Name
The Little Mermaid / int_8f900ccd	comment	Overly Long Name: Horatio Felonious Ignacious Crustaceous Sebastian.
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The Little Mermaid / int_8fc111c3	type	Evil Eyebrows
The Little Mermaid / int_8fc111c3	comment	Evil Eyebrows: Ursula.
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The Little Mermaid / int_907a3f07	type	SlapstickKnowsNoGender
The Little Mermaid / int_907a3f07	comment	Slapstick Knows No Gender: Scuttle's plan to stop the wedding involves having Ursula attacked with nearly everything him and the ocean can throw at her, compared to the rest of the climax this is played very comically. Bonus points since Ursula is still in her far more feminine "Vanessa" disguise at this point. One could argue that Ariel gets into a mild form of this every now and again, most notably at the dinner scene where she confuses the fork for a hairbrush-like object and essentially makes herself look like an idiot. Relatively tame by the standards of her successor princesses, but it is notable how she got the ball rolling for this trope to apply even to the female lead.
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The Little Mermaid / int_91438937	type	Gonky Femme
The Little Mermaid / int_91438937	comment	Gonky Femme: Ursula is frightening, obese and mannish looking, but behaves as a sexy seductress, down to her make up, hip swinging and mannerisms-
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The Little Mermaid / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Little Mermaid / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Ursula is meant to be the personification of lust, with Ariel being purity. There is a similar metaphor in the original story, with the mermaid being lust and the Temple princess being purity, which is why the latter gets the prince.
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The Little Mermaid / int_91c001	type	Cute Mute
The Little Mermaid / int_91c001	comment	Cute Mute: Ariel when she loses her voice.
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The Little Mermaid / int_9578e935	type	Bare Your Midriff
The Little Mermaid / int_9578e935	comment	Bare Your Midriff: By default for every mermaid. Ursula isn't in this category.
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The Little Mermaid / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Little Mermaid / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Ursula near the end.
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The Little Mermaid / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
The Little Mermaid / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Sebastian, twice; after he spills Ariel's secret, leading to the destruction of her 'collection', and after he tries to coerce her into trying to go back on Ursula's deal. He helps Ariel in her mission wholeheartedly after the second time. Triton also gets one. Look closely at his face as he leaves after destroying Ariel's collection: As he sees his daughter sobbing uncontrollably, you can imagine him thinking "My God, What Have I Done?"
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The Little Mermaid / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
The Little Mermaid / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: Why does Triton see humans as enemies and forbid merpeople from going above water? It isn't until the threequel that we probably get this answer.
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The Little Mermaid / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Little Mermaid / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Ursula.
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The Little Mermaid / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
The Little Mermaid / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: Played with. Ursula's plan to get Ariel and use her as leverage against Triton hinged on Ariel's failure to get kissed by Eric before the third sunset. Ursula initially believed this was an Impossible Task without Ariel's voice and figured she just needed to sit and wait. However, when she saw how close Ariel and Eric were getting and realized that Eric would kiss Ariel before time ran out, she was forced to improvise by disguising herself as Vanessa and keep the two apart.
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The Little Mermaid / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
The Little Mermaid / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Had the Seahorse Herald had been a tad bit more specific on why Triton needed to see Sebastian about Ariel, the crab wouldn't have thought it was because the Sea King knew about Prince Eric.
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The Little Mermaid / int_9a182042	type	Princesses Prefer Pink
The Little Mermaid / int_9a182042	comment	Princesses Prefer Pink: Ariel's dinner dress and nightgown are both pink.
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The Little Mermaid / int_9a6fbae7	type	Hurt Foot Hop
The Little Mermaid / int_9a6fbae7	comment	Hurt Foot Hop: This happens to Chef Louis after a pan falls onto his foot while he is chasing after Sebastian. He briefly hops in pain, clutching his other foot in both hands.
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The Little Mermaid / int_9ad6ea63	type	Depth Deception
The Little Mermaid / int_9ad6ea63	comment	Depth Deception: Scuttle sees Ariel through a spyglass from the wrong end, and shouts to her as if she were far away, even though she is actually a few inches in front of him. When she moves the spyglass away, Scuttle exclaims, "Whoa, what a swim!"
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The Little Mermaid / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
The Little Mermaid / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: Flotsam and Jetsam get hit by a stray blast from the trident, and explode into tiny fragments of flesh, bone and eyes. And since Ursula actually loved them, this winds up pissing her off. Ursula's death. Eric comes up from behind her using a sunken ship and rams the mast through her stomach with the point sticking out of her back, while being shocked by the power of the trident, seeing her skeleton flashing a few times before sinking into the sea and disintegrating. You can even see her pieces sinking to the ocean floor. The original draft of the above scene originally had Eric wrestle the trident from her long enough to "oblige" her when she demands he give it back... by tossing it right through her heart (this scene was re-used in Kingdom Hearts II).
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The Little Mermaid / int_9b54d536	type	EvilCounterpart
The Little Mermaid / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Vanessa, Ursula's disguise, even without Ariel's voice, greatly resembles Ariel herself, albeit overall much darker. She also technically doubles as an Evil Brunette Twin.
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The Little Mermaid / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
The Little Mermaid / int_9bfb2f41	comment	Dead Guy on Display: The kitchen to Sebastian, which was full of seafood dishes and fish prepared to be cooked up. To Sebastian's absolute horror, he sees a plate of stuffed crabs, resulting in him fainting on the spot.
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The Little Mermaid / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Little Mermaid / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The "Under the Sea" musical number has Sebastian singing about how humans use fish for food. In the middle of the film, poor Sebastian ends up in a kitchen full of fish food, and almost becomes food himself.
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The Little Mermaid / int_9d39440e	type	Right-Hand Attack Dog
The Little Mermaid / int_9d39440e	comment	Right-Hand Attack Dog: Ursula the Sea Witch's pet green moray eel minions Flotsam and Jetsam.
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The Little Mermaid / int_9ddf598a	type	Mundane Object Amazement
The Little Mermaid / int_9ddf598a	comment	Mundane Object Amazement: Ariel is amazed at things like forks and spoons.
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The Little Mermaid / int_9de3695d	type	Alto Villainess
The Little Mermaid / int_9de3695d	comment	Alto Villainess: Ursula certainly qualifies. In the movie, she's got Pat Carroll's throaty, almost masculine contralto. note In fact, she was supposed to be voiced by infamous Drag Queen Divine, and it shows even in the final film. However, s/he died prior to the recording sessions, so they hired Carroll instead.
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The Little Mermaid / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
The Little Mermaid / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "...You turn back into a mermaid. And, you belong. To me."
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The Little Mermaid / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
The Little Mermaid / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: Ursula in the original film, Morgana in Return to the Sea and Marina Del Ray in Ariel's Beginning. Played Straight in the Disney on Broadway version as well, with Ursula having the line: "Girls with ambition! They don't like that, do they? No."
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The Little Mermaid / int_9e83f027	type	Amazing Technicolor Population
The Little Mermaid / int_9e83f027	comment	Amazing Technicolor Population: Alana, Adella, Aquata, Attina, Arista, Andrina and Ariel all have different tail-colors. They're like an all-female underwater Sentai.
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The Little Mermaid / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
The Little Mermaid / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: When Flounder tries to defend Ariel and tells about how they were chased by a shark which could have killed both of them, Triton's response is fairly lackadaisical. But, the second Flounder accidentally lets it slip that they went to the surface, Triton goes apeshit. Which is strikingly bizarre for an Overprotective Dad trying his very best to keep his youngest daughter out of harm's way.
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The Little Mermaid / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
The Little Mermaid / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Used and subverted. Normally it's a good thing to hear Ariel's Voice, but in the scene when Eric throws his flute into the sea and seems ready to marry voiceless Ariel, hearing that song turns into an Oh, Crap! moment for the audience.
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The Little Mermaid / int_a0434be6	type	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
The Little Mermaid / int_a0434be6	comment	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Vanessa certainly qualifies.
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The Little Mermaid / int_a080eec4	type	Gorgeous Garment Generation
The Little Mermaid / int_a080eec4	comment	Gorgeous Garment Generation
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The Little Mermaid / int_a0eeac39	type	Odd Name Out
The Little Mermaid / int_a0eeac39	comment	Odd Name Out: Ariel's name starts with A like her sisters', but it does not end with A. But sometimes she does....like in the Croatian and Italian dubs.
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The Little Mermaid / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Little Mermaid / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Triton when he blames himself for Ariel's disappearance, given the way he acted. This foreshadows his eventual Heroic Sacrifice to being Ursula's prisoner instead of Ariel. Downplayed but when Ariel is in Ursula's clutches after failing to get Eric's kiss, she tries to apologize to her father. When he is turned into a polyp in her place she's clearly horrified. Sebastian also has a similar reaction after Triton destroys Ariel's things. Like the former, this prompts him to try and help Ariel to make amends.
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The Little Mermaid / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
The Little Mermaid / int_a24670a4	comment	Benevolent Boss: Ursula, which is unusual for a Disney villain. Subverted in the TV series, though.
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The Little Mermaid / int_a3026af9	type	Wedding Smashers
The Little Mermaid / int_a3026af9	comment	Wedding Smashers: Scuttle rounds up every critter in the area to crash the Vanessa/Eric nuptials, buying Ariel time to get to the wedding barge.
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The Little Mermaid / int_a363ee29	type	Jailbait
The Little Mermaid / int_a363ee29	comment	Jailbait: Ariel has just turned sixteen at the start of the movie, but no one makes any issue of her getting married what is presumably just weeks later. Possibly because she's royalty. Teen marriage was also much more common at the time, sixteen wouldn't really have been considered an unusual age to be getting married.
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The Little Mermaid / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
The Little Mermaid / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: All of Ariel's sisters had blue eyes in the original film. In the prequel, most of the girls' eye colors change.
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The Little Mermaid / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Little Mermaid / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: "You're too late!" The music track "Destruction of the Grotto" starts out all lively and cheerful as Ariel admires her Prince Eric statue. When Triton shows up, the music does a total 180. Damn, that Menken knows how to write music.
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The Little Mermaid / int_a5a3ae2b	type	Orifice Invasion
The Little Mermaid / int_a5a3ae2b	comment	Orifice Invasion: The giant hands Ursula summons go down Ariel's throat to claim her voice.
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The Little Mermaid / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The Little Mermaid / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: "Before the sun sets on the third day..."
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The Little Mermaid / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Little Mermaid / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Ursula's "garden" is made of former merfolk, now helpless, voiceless polyps, whom she transformed after they made near-impossible "deals" with her.
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The Little Mermaid / int_a8c6a317	type	Super-Strength
The Little Mermaid / int_a8c6a317	comment	Super Strength: Implied with Ariel when the movie first shows her grotto, where she moves a boulder aside with ease when accessing it. Flounder is a freaking powerhouse. He's able to pull Ariel and the barrel fast enough to catch up with the wedding barge, too; and he pulls her all the way to the surface from the bottom of the ocean right after she transforms. And let's not forget it was Flounder who got Eric's statue into Ariel's grotto.
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The Little Mermaid / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
The Little Mermaid / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Ariel for Eric, with a chaser of Florence Nightingale Effect.
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The Little Mermaid / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
The Little Mermaid / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Scuttle, despite spending most of the movie as a Know-Nothing Know-It-All, leads the sea world in an attempt to crash Eric and "Vanessa's" wedding, and is directly responsible for destroying Ursula's conch, thus giving back Ariel her voice and breaking Eric from Ursula's hypnosis in time to realise what is going on.
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The Little Mermaid / int_accd97de	type	Actionized Adaptation
The Little Mermaid / int_accd97de	comment	Actionized Adaptation: The movie made the Sea Witch the main villain, had her grow gigantic, and battle Eric and Ariel after gaining control of the entire ocean. This scene was even more action-packed than what was originally intended, with Jeffrey Katzenberg telling the writers to take inspiration from the just-released Die Hard.
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The Little Mermaid / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Little Mermaid / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Eric piloting (or at least attempting to) his ship in the hurricane. He manages to grab onto a shipwreck that Ursula accidentally summons with her trident, and directs it despite the choppy waters to kill her.
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The Little Mermaid / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Little Mermaid / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: Ursula throwing a monkey wrench into her deal with Ariel to usurp power is ultimately a catalyst for Eric killing her for trying to kill Ariel, which convinces Triton to overcome his hatred of humans and let Ariel stay with Eric and depart with him and the rest of his kingdom on good terms.
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The Little Mermaid / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Little Mermaid / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Sebastian when he sees Ariel has rescued human Eric and is singing over him. Complete with Jaw Drop. He does another one when he accidentally rats Ariel out to Triton. Also, when Ariel sees her father in her grotto after she swoons over the Eric statue. After Ariel blurts out she loves Eric directly to Triton's face, both she, Triton, AND Sebastian have this expression. Cue another one from Ariel and Sebastian when Triton shortly afterwards starts destroying the grotto. Sebastian is a king of this trope; he does ANOTHER one when Ariel tells him she's going to Ursula, and this time, he has good reason to be horrified. And both Sebastian and Flounder when Ariel signs Ursula's contract and gets turned into a human. He gives another one when they're on land. Sebastian again when he finds himself face to face with the kitchen's contents, including stuffed crabs. Cue faint. Then once more when he sees Chef Louie and nearly throws up. Then again when he runs into a dismembered fish head. As a matter of fact, Sebastian does an Oh, Crap! look virtually every five seconds in this part of the film as he gets noticed; every example would require its own page (along with Louie when the jig ends). Eric when Ariel starts their carriage running towards a cliff. Ariel and Sebastian when they see Eric hypnotized into marriage with Vanessa/Ursula. "Vanessa" does a big one as a big flock of birds speed towards her. "Vanessa"/Ursula when she speaks after this and realizes she no longer has Ariel's voice. The entire wedding barge when Ursula drops her disguise. Ariel and Sebastian after Ursula turns Triton into a polyp. Ursula when her "babies" get zapped. Flounder and Sebastian when Ursula goes One-Winged Angel. Ariel and Eric when confronted with One-Winged Angel Ursula. Ariel when Ursula traps her. Ursula when she gets Impaled with Extreme Prejudice by Eric. Sebastian when Louie finds him on the wedding barge. "Oh my gosh! My father's gonna kill me!" Scuttle when he sees Ursula's reflection in Vanessa's mirror. Ariel has the same reaction when he frantically reports that the "bride" is Ursula in disguise! It suddenly all makes sense now! Flounder when he sees the shark behind him.
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The Little Mermaid / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Little Mermaid / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Grimsby.
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The Little Mermaid / int_aec3d8b2	type	Expository Theme Tune
The Little Mermaid / int_aec3d8b2	comment	Expository Theme Tune: The film opens with the short Daughters of Triton number which gives a brief summary of the characters. Sebastion apparently wrote a shout-out to HIMSELF into the number.
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The Little Mermaid / int_aedf28fe	type	Falling-in-Love Montage
The Little Mermaid / int_aedf28fe	comment	Falling-in-Love Montage: Ariel and Eric touring the kingdom.
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The Little Mermaid / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
The Little Mermaid / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: Ariel's a near-literal example.
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The Little Mermaid / int_af8dad6b	type	Beautiful Singing Voice
The Little Mermaid / int_af8dad6b	comment	Beautiful Singing Voice: A central plot point. Ariel's singing voice is the one thing Ursula takes away from her before turning her into a human. Later, her voice is the one thing that makes Prince Eric remember her as the girl who saved his life when he shipwrecked at sea.
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The Little Mermaid / int_b02f21f	type	Digital Destruction
The Little Mermaid / int_b02f21f	comment	On early pressings of the Diamond Edition Blu-Ray, the ending of the "Part of Your World" sequence plays differently than it originally did. Instead of cutting from Ariel reaching her hand out towards the surface, to her floating back down onto a rock, it cuts from Ariel reaching out, to Flounder looking sad. Also, the scene transition when Ariel and Flounder go to visit Scuttle has changed from a dissolve to a cut. (See the Digital Destruction entry for more.)
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The Little Mermaid / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
The Little Mermaid / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Ariel all the way. She spends the first half of the movie in a Seashell Bra and nothing else, she is nude when she's turned into a human and she gets a very flattering dress towards the end. She was the first Disney Princess to have a degree of sexuality in her design.
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The Little Mermaid / int_b298a3fe	type	Lord of the Ocean
The Little Mermaid / int_b298a3fe	comment	Lord of the Ocean: King Triton himself is ruler of a race of merpeople in an underwater acropolis. The untold magical power of his trident makes one question whether or not he is the Greek God of his namesake, especially when Ursula gets a hold of it.
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The Little Mermaid / int_b36ae36a	type	Collector of the Strange
The Little Mermaid / int_b36ae36a	comment	Collector of the Strange: Ariel, who collects many items considered mundane to humans but strange to merfolk.
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The Little Mermaid / int_b3f77675	type	Grass Is Greener
The Little Mermaid / int_b3f77675	comment	Grass Is Greener: "Betcha on land they understand/Bet they don't... reprimand their daughters..." In "Under the Sea", Sebastian points out, "The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake..."
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The Little Mermaid / int_b5f7b739	type	Evil Overlooker
The Little Mermaid / int_b5f7b739	comment	Evil Overlooker: Some posters for the film have Ursula sporting a nasty grin and staring down at Ariel/the viewer.
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The Little Mermaid / int_b69e71fe	type	Rainbow Motif
The Little Mermaid / int_b69e71fe	comment	Rainbow Motif: The seven daughters of Triton each have a different color tail. If we were to arrange them chromatically, they are: Arista (red), Attina (orange), Adella (yellow), Ariel (green), Aquata (blue), Andrina (purple), Alana (pink).
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The Little Mermaid / int_b8499e1c	type	Hypno Trinket
The Little Mermaid / int_b8499e1c	comment	Hypno Trinket: The shell containing Ariel's voice. Inverted in that it is Ursula who is wearing it and using it to manipulate Eric, rather than the usual case of the antagonist placing it on the victim.
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The Little Mermaid / int_b8dbbc07	type	Ink-Suit Actor
The Little Mermaid / int_b8dbbc07	comment	Ink-Suit Actor: Scuttle and his voice actor, the late Buddy Hackett. Hackett had his wife take photos of his face as he tried to make seagull-esque expressions in preparation for the role, and it seems the animators used those photos as reference material. Subverted with Ursula, although just barely. Her design was based on Divine, and apparently was actually intended to be voiced by Divine, but he died before he could lend the voice. Ariel's face and movements were heavily modelled on her voice actress, the very redheaded Jodi Benson. Even twenty years later, the resemblance is incredibly striking. And we can't forget Sherri "Slappy Squirrel" Stoner, who served as the main physical model for Ariel. That little lip-biting thing Ariel does on occasion? That's all Sherri. Eric is also an animated version of Christopher Daniel Barnes. There's almost no difference between the two. Samuel E. Wright as Sebastian—especially on the lips.
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The Little Mermaid / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Little Mermaid / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Ariel's sisters, who had more to do in the original story.
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The Little Mermaid / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
The Little Mermaid / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Ariel. If one takes the prequel movie as canon, her father is a male example - as he had auburn hair in his youth.
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The Little Mermaid / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Little Mermaid / int_bb18a227	comment	Sebastian get a lot of character growth too. He spends the first half of the movie obsessing about how what Ariel does will affect him, and in fact rats her out to Triton because he's afraid of Triton punishing him. After seeing the horror Ariel goes through as a result and getting nearly served for dinner by Chef Louis, he decides to make Ariel happy and spends the rest of the movie trying to help her. Fittingly enough, both Triton and Sebastian's character development is underlined in a conversation between them.
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The Little Mermaid / int_bbc79d08	type	Everything's Better with Princesses
The Little Mermaid / int_bbc79d08	comment	Everything's Better with Princesses: The mermaid isn't a princess in the original fairy tale but becomes one here. Ariel was made a princess in fact because they wanted to make it a Genre Throwback to the princess movies of Walt's day. Inverted when it comes to 'Vanessa'. The mermaid's rival in the story was in fact a princess. Here she's just a disguise by Ursula, and nothing is said about Vanessa being a princess.
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The Little Mermaid / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Little Mermaid / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: In the stage musical, one of Ursula's songs, "I Want the Good Times Back", manages to squeeze in this line:
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The Little Mermaid / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Little Mermaid / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Don't say anything about humans around King Triton.
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The Little Mermaid / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
The Little Mermaid / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: Ursula does this quite a bit during the final battle. Vanessa, Ursula's disguise, has this when gloating about her inevitable victory (specifically, when she throws her hairpin at a mirror with enough force to knock the mirror back upon impact).
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The Little Mermaid / int_bdb0438e	type	Everything's Better with Sparkles
The Little Mermaid / int_bdb0438e	comment	Everything's Better with Sparkles: When Triton returns Ariel to human form, she emerges from the sea before Eric in a sparkling silver dress.
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The Little Mermaid / int_bdcfd50	type	Conspicuous CG
The Little Mermaid / int_bdcfd50	comment	Conspicuous CG: The staircase Ariel runs down to find Eric and Vanessa. And the horse-drawn wagon that Ariel and Eric ride in during their village tour. It's especially obvious when Ariel starts driving, and a few shots reveal the wheels not turning at all in plain sight.
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The Little Mermaid / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
The Little Mermaid / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Ariel and Eric, from the end of the first movie and into the sequel.
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The Little Mermaid / int_bf4a990	type	Despotism Justifies the Means
The Little Mermaid / int_bf4a990	comment	Despotism Justifies the Means: Ursula's plans to rule, had she ruled as Queen of the Sea long enough.
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The Little Mermaid / int_bf9163d9	type	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
The Little Mermaid / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: King Triton's daughters are four dark-haired girls (Aquata, Attina, Adella, and Alana), two blondes (Arista and Andrina), and one redhead (Ariel).
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The Little Mermaid / int_bf927e82	type	Non-Human Sidekick
The Little Mermaid / int_bf927e82	comment	Non-Human Sidekick: Flounder, Sebastian, Scuttle, and Max for the goodies. Flotsam and Jetsam for the baddie.
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The Little Mermaid / int_c2afffe	type	Take Me Instead
The Little Mermaid / int_c2afffe	comment	Take Me Instead: This is the essence of King Triton's offer to Ursula. Ariel has signed her soul over to her and in order to break the Magically Binding Contract he has to put his signature in place of hers.
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The Little Mermaid / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
The Little Mermaid / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": From Ariel, when her collection's destroyed and Ursula, when Eric's about to kiss Ariel.
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The Little Mermaid / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
The Little Mermaid / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: More like "Ship Fu" and was done by Eric in the climax.
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The Little Mermaid / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Little Mermaid / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Eric and Grimsby repeatedly discuss Eric's dating life when Ariel is nearby. Even more irony: Grim councils Eric to forget his "dream girl" (Eric wished to marry the girl who saved him, not realizing it was Ariel), and to accept the real one he has.
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The Little Mermaid / int_c3cb84e2	type	Simple, yet Opulent
The Little Mermaid / int_c3cb84e2	comment	Simple, yet Opulent: Ariel's dresses in this movie have a few trimmings at most.
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The Little Mermaid / int_c41e9867	type	Intangible Price
The Little Mermaid / int_c41e9867	comment	Intangible Price: Ursula insists on Ariel's voice in exchange for turning her human.
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The Little Mermaid / int_c55c31e2	type	NonStandardCharacterDesign
The Little Mermaid / int_c55c31e2	comment	Non-Standard Character Design: Ironically, the merpeople have much more realistic designs and proportions than those of the humans (With the exception of Eric and Vanessa.)
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The Little Mermaid / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
The Little Mermaid / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: In Ariel's Beginning, Queen Athena looks exactly like Ariel with green eyes. In the sequel, Melody looks a lot like Eric, down to her bangs and eyebrows.
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The Little Mermaid / int_c63e5338	type	It Runs in the Family
The Little Mermaid / int_c63e5338	comment	It Runs in the Family: Ariel sees Triton as an overprotective, suffocating father unable to understand her needs and desires and spends her adolescence trying to find a way to reach her dreams and defy his authority, despite loving him dearly. But then, Ariel manages to reach her dreams, have her father accept her as an adult, marry her sweetheart... and becomes the tormented mother of a rebellious daughter believing her to be overprotective, suffocating, unable to understand her needs and desires, who spends her entire adolescence trying to find a way to reach her dreams and defy her authority, despite loving her mother as much as she loved his father. On the other side, Triton is a loving, doting father trying to shelter her daughter for every perceived threat... as Ariel becomes a similar, if not equal, parental figure for her own daughter. Seems that genetics conspire to turn every rebellious teen in Triton's family into an adult Mama Wolf or Papa Bear as soon as the biological clock starts ticking.
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The Little Mermaid / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
The Little Mermaid / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Ursula's Jiggle Show during "Poor Unfortunate Souls". invoked The elderly preacher's knees, way more so.
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The Little Mermaid / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Little Mermaid / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Prince Eric was named after animator Eric Larson, one of Disney's Nine Old Men, in his honor. So an octopus-monster, Ursula, is menacing everyone. Heroically, Eric pilots a ship into her, the snapped bowsprit impaling it and sending it back to whence it came. But enough about the end of H. P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu"... One of Ariel's sisters is named Alana, after composer Alan Menken. Alana also means 'harbor'. This is the reason why they ended up changing the ending to the final version. Apparently, one of the creators had recently seen Die Hard, and thought they should make the movie more action-packed like the movie (which probably explains the "Ship-Fu" at the end of the movie).
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The Little Mermaid / int_c78c0896	type	Big Friendly Dog
The Little Mermaid / int_c78c0896	comment	Big Friendly Dog: Prince Eric's dog, Max. As Eric puts it, he's a knucklehead but he's harmless.
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The Little Mermaid / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
The Little Mermaid / int_c819533b	comment	Rage Breaking Point: Triton was already furious that his daughter had made contact with a human, but Ariel's defying shout of "I love him!" proved to be the straw that broke the seahorse's back.
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The Little Mermaid / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
The Little Mermaid / int_c93a6560	comment	Ursula when she gets Impaled with Extreme Prejudice by Eric.
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The Little Mermaid / int_c99d44aa	type	Lost Voice Plot
The Little Mermaid / int_c99d44aa	comment	Lost Voice Plot: Ariel didn't lose her voice in the normal way, but, through magic, she had it stolen.
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The Little Mermaid / int_ca803242	type	Power Hair
The Little Mermaid / int_ca803242	comment	Power Hair: Ursula.
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The Little Mermaid / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
The Little Mermaid / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Scuttle. Arguably Ariel herself, especially compared to the other Disney Princesses and the other merfolk. Her family would have thought she was out there for having an interest in land, and what other Disney Princess is a Collector of the Strange?
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The Little Mermaid / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
The Little Mermaid / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: After Ursula gains the godlike powers of King Triton in the climax and transforms into a giant sea monster version of herself, Eric saves the day by piloting a ship to impale Ursula. This is based on the end of The Call of Cthulhu (!).
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The Little Mermaid / int_ccb97ff2	type	Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion
The Little Mermaid / int_ccb97ff2	comment	Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: The "Daughters of Triton" song.. It's a concert Sebastian has created with all of Triton's daughters and is supposed to be the grand debut of Triton's youngest daughter, the lead character of the film, the Little Mermaid we know as Ariel.
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The Little Mermaid / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
The Little Mermaid / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: When compared to the original story, which had a very unhappy ending. Well, it is a Disney movie after all.
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The Little Mermaid / int_cf48c17	type	Nightmare Face
The Little Mermaid / int_cf48c17	comment	Nightmare Face: "So help me, Ariel, I am going to get through to you, and if this is the only way, so be it!"
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The Little Mermaid / int_d139ffaf	type	Genre Throwback
The Little Mermaid / int_d139ffaf	comment	The mermaid isn't a princess in the original fairy tale but becomes one here. Ariel was made a princess in fact because they wanted to make it a Genre Throwback to the princess movies of Walt's day.
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The Little Mermaid / int_d16fa512	type	Was Too Hard on Him
The Little Mermaid / int_d16fa512	comment	Was Too Hard on Him: King Triton dwells over this after scolding Ariel. He also thinks this after destroying her secret grotto filled with human treasures. To be fair, he did go overboard with the latter.
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The Little Mermaid / int_d238fd9d	type	Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing
The Little Mermaid / int_d238fd9d	comment	Ariel is naked when she becomes human, and as a mermaid, she (and her fellow merpeople) show a lot of skin: the women wear only a Seashell Bra, and the men go bare-chested.
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The Little Mermaid / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Little Mermaid / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: If Ursula wasn't such a showoff, she would not have surfaced Eric's ship and enabled him to kill her. A fitting death for a sea witch with an ego that outsizes her.
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The Little Mermaid / int_d3e3e878	type	Love at First Note
The Little Mermaid / int_d3e3e878	comment	Love at First Note: Eric for Ariel.
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The Little Mermaid / int_d507ecfc	type	Does Not Like Shoes
The Little Mermaid / int_d507ecfc	comment	Does Not Like Shoes: There are more shots of human Ariel with clearly bare feet than clearly wearing shoes.
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The Little Mermaid / int_d5abf14c	type	Animal Eye Spy
The Little Mermaid / int_d5abf14c	comment	Animal Eye Spy: Ursula uses this with her eels Flotsam and Jetsum to keep an eye on Ariel.
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The Little Mermaid / int_d97f6f0c	type	Musicalis Interruptus
The Little Mermaid / int_d97f6f0c	comment	Musicalis Interruptus: Some of the best around.
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The Little Mermaid / int_da4a8208	type	Progressive Instrumentation
The Little Mermaid / int_da4a8208	comment	Progressive Instrumentation: "Kiss the Girl" has the various animals jump in one at a time.
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The Little Mermaid / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
The Little Mermaid / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Ariel is one of the first Disney Princesses to fight villains directly, fighting off a shark, saving Eric from drowning in a storm, and distracting Ursula when she tries to blast Eric, though Eric rescues her from Ursula in the end. In the stage musical, she's the one who kills Ursula, not Eric.
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The Little Mermaid / int_db27d520	type	Amazing Technicolor Wildlife
The Little Mermaid / int_db27d520	comment	Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: The sea creatures and plant life all come in very bright colors that make the underwater world pop.
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The Little Mermaid / int_db7c3858	type	One Mario Limit
The Little Mermaid / int_db7c3858	comment	One Mario Limit: "Ursula" wasn't a very common English name to begin with, but no reasoning parent today would name their child such, thanks to the villain of this film. Unless, of course, they are George of the Jungle or Ursula Andress fans.
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The Little Mermaid / int_dc3d72e6	type	Something We Forgot
The Little Mermaid / int_dc3d72e6	comment	"Oh my gosh! My father's gonna kill me!"
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The Little Mermaid / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Little Mermaid / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Subverted. King Triton tries to be as he's gently telling Ariel off for missing her debut concert, while Sebastian is playing the Bad Cop. When he finds out Ariel went to the surface, he chews her out because she could have been hurt by humans, and won't listen to her protests that nothing happened.
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The Little Mermaid / int_dd3d1f69	type	Wicked Witch
The Little Mermaid / int_dd3d1f69	comment	Wicked Witch: Although Ursula is a member of a fairy race rather than human, she's considered a Wicked Witch to merpeople.
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The Little Mermaid / int_ddab9ac8	type	Bad Samaritan
The Little Mermaid / int_ddab9ac8	comment	Bad Samaritan: Ursula.
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The Little Mermaid / int_de1cb800	type	PinocchioSyndrome
The Little Mermaid / int_de1cb800	comment	Pinocchio Syndrome: "Part of your World" is a passionate declaration of the desire to become human. The desire becomes uncontrollable after Ariel's encounter with Eric, who could be said to represent the human world she's always longed for. Even after she becomes human, she is just as, if not more, focused on exploring as she is on kissing Eric and saving her own life.
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The Little Mermaid / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
The Little Mermaid / int_e03c448e	comment	Water Is Air: The animators worked their butts off to make the underwater physics at least more believable than usual, so we'll chalk up Ariel gasping and crying as a Translation Convention. Actually, it is theoretically possible for her to gasp underwater because, since she lives underwater, she probably has gills that activate when underwater, a binary respiratory system, if you will. Subverted on the whole with Ariel's movements within the water, for the creation of which animators referenced the movements of astronauts in zero gravity. Also, why they censor Ariel's movements on land: they don't show how she got Eric on the shore, or how she climbs the ship and later the rock. It would look really awkward if they showed her dragging herself around, but still,... And completely un-subverted in the prequel by having merpeople swim down the 'streets' in a completely upright posture, as if they were walking on feet, even though their tails don't touch the ground.
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The Little Mermaid / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Little Mermaid / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Ursula did not take Flotsam and Jetsam's deaths well. "Babies! My poor little poopsies!"
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The Little Mermaid / int_e34ada78	type	Authority Equals Asskicking
The Little Mermaid / int_e34ada78	comment	Authority Equals Asskicking: Prince Eric, master of Ship Fu.
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The Little Mermaid / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
The Little Mermaid / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: This was the last Disney film to use traditional hand-painted animation cels. All subsequent Disney films were produced in digital ink-and-paint. Two scenes in Little Mermaid were done with digital ink-and-paint, however. They are Ariel running down the stairs before finding out about Vanessa (to accommodate the CGI stair background) and the wedding scene at the end.
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The Little Mermaid / int_e453ef50	type	Crystal Ball
The Little Mermaid / int_e453ef50	comment	Crystal Ball: Ursula has a bubble that serves as this. It's also heavily implied that Flotsam and Jetsam's eyes act as this.
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The Little Mermaid / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
The Little Mermaid / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: In the original fairy tale, there's a sea witch who gives the mermaid her legs and a human princess whom the prince marries; Ursula combines them both, along with Adaptational Villainy.
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The Little Mermaid / int_e4f05faa	type	Jaw Drop
The Little Mermaid / int_e4f05faa	comment	Sebastian when he sees Ariel has rescued human Eric and is singing over him. Complete with Jaw Drop.
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The Little Mermaid / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
The Little Mermaid / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: In this movie, when the trident glows, something bad is about to happen (Triton destroys the grotto in one of the most frightening scenes in Disney history, Ursula usurps him, etc). Subverted after Ursula's defeat, when it's used to turn Ariel human permanently.
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The Little Mermaid / int_e5448c9	type	PimpedOutDress
The Little Mermaid / int_e5448c9	comment	Pimped-Out Dress: The dinner dress Ariel is given as well as her wedding dress.
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The Little Mermaid / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Little Mermaid / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Ariel with her desire to be human and marry Eric and Eric's desire to marry the girl who saved his life.
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The Little Mermaid / int_e5bb2929	type	Super Not-Drowning Skills
The Little Mermaid / int_e5bb2929	comment	Super Not-Drowning Skills: On the other end of the spectrum, Eric seems to possess this in the first movie's finale, during which he dives into the sea, and to throw a harpoon at Ursula, while he's about about 6 feet away from his rowboat.
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The Little Mermaid / int_e602b55b	type	Shadow Discretion Shot
The Little Mermaid / int_e602b55b	comment	Shadow Discretion Shot: Ariel's transformation into a human by Ursula. Subverted though, in that if you lighten the color on your monitor, you can see see a good deal of Ariel's nude body.
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The Little Mermaid / int_e61d9a3c	type	Clothing Damage
The Little Mermaid / int_e61d9a3c	comment	Clothing Damage: Eric loses his boots in the ocean twice in the film (when Ariel rescues him from drowning, and later after defeating Ursula), and his pant legs get torn. It's worth noting though that in real life, it is very difficult for boots to come off in water.
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The Little Mermaid / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Little Mermaid / int_e796ce97	comment	Blackface: The "Blackfish" in Under the Sea is borderline. Surprisingly, Disney hasn't edited it out... yet.
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The Little Mermaid / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
The Little Mermaid / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Normally Scuttle when telling Ariel "facts" about the human world is in a jovial tone, or at least she can figure out he's wrong instantly. When he flies to Ariel, Flounder and Sebastian after seeing Ursula's reflection in Vanessa's mirror, he's frantic and serious, quickly telling them "the prince is marrying the sea witch in disguise!" Even though Sebastian questions him, the trio realize that he's right, and that they have to get to the ship. Then when Sebastian orders Scuttle to stall the wedding, Scuttle calls all the sea creatures and birds he can find, to give Vanessa a Humiliation Conga and smash her shell. Sebastian ordering Scuttle to stall the wedding also counts. For their time together, Sebastian has treated Scuttle as a fool. When he gives his orders, he sincerely tells Scuttle to get to it, without his usual condescension.
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The Little Mermaid / int_e96b33b9	type	Loose Lips
The Little Mermaid / int_e96b33b9	comment	Loose Lips: Whilst making up a story to cover up Ariel's disappearance at the concert, Flounder inadvertently gets Ariel into trouble with Triton for going up to the surface by mentioning "seagull". How King Triton found out of Ariel's rescue of Eric and her secret grotto, after Sebastian spills the beans due to Triton pressuring him whilst questioning Sebastian about Ariel's behavior.
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The Little Mermaid / int_ea314e84	type	Ode to Food
The Little Mermaid / int_ea314e84	comment	Ode to Food: "Les Poissions" is a hammy song sung by a chef about how he loves to cook fish. Sebastian, who hears him singing, is simultaneously horrified and grossed out.
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The Little Mermaid / int_ea466005	type	Angry Collar Grab
The Little Mermaid / int_ea466005	comment	Angry Collar Grab: Scuttle tries to convey urgent news to Sebastian and Flounder, but is too flustered to speak coherently. Scuttle resorts to seizing a dubious Sebastian by his shell, and punctuates the sentence, "The Prince is gonna marry the Sea Witch in disguise!" by slamming the poor crab into the pier.
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The Little Mermaid / int_eab751ef	type	Censor Shadow
The Little Mermaid / int_eab751ef	comment	Censor Shadow: After Ariel is transformed into a human, she's in the shadows before she leaves Ursula's lair.
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The Little Mermaid / int_eb01d70	type	Princess Protagonist
The Little Mermaid / int_eb01d70	comment	Princess Protagonist: Ariel, the protagonist of the movie, is the princess of her undersea kingdom, though she rejects the life set out for her and falls in love with a human prince.
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The Little Mermaid / int_ec4375d	type	Parents Are Wrong
The Little Mermaid / int_ec4375d	comment	Parents Are Wrong: Ariel wants to live on land and marry a human. King Trident vetoes this, but eventually relents and realizes that "children should be free to live their own lives."
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The Little Mermaid / int_ece6f910	type	Moment Killer
The Little Mermaid / int_ece6f910	comment	Moment Killer: Deliberately done by Floatsum and Jetsum when they knock over Eric and Ariel's boat, preventing the two from kissing.
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The Little Mermaid / int_ecfbba60	type	Fee Fi Faux Pas
The Little Mermaid / int_ecfbba60	comment	Fee Fi Faux Pas: Ariel, at her first dinner with Eric, uses a dinglehopper (a fork) to comb her hair (based on faulty information provided by Scuttle the seagull). She also grabs Grimsby's pipe and blows into it believing that it is a snarfblatt, which Scuttle blows like a trumpet.
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The Little Mermaid / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: During the opening "Fathoms Below", Grimsby is seasick from the rough waters and is Green Around the Gills when responding to Prince Eric's comment about the fresh sea air, and then his cheeks bulge and he leans over the ship's railing to puke, facing away from the camera.
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The Little Mermaid / int_eede3c98	comment	Princesses Rule: Gender Flipped with Prince Eric.
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The Little Mermaid / int_effa6875	comment	Refrain from Assuming: Ariel's main song, "Part Of Your World", can be mistaken as "Part of That World" as she says the latter in the song. She does say the former in the reprises, however.
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The Little Mermaid / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: Andersen's little mermaid only had five sisters; Ariel has six.
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The Little Mermaid / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: As the first proper Disney-Broadway film, that so many Animated Musicals have been inspired by, it's surprising to see that the musical elements are at least justified in-universe. A supporting character is a concert composer and he's responsible for some of the film's more splashy numbers. The heroine having a beautiful singing voice is also a plot point - and it's exploited by the villain.
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The Little Mermaid / int_f2d2ec5f	comment	Evil Chef: Chef Louie certainly is from Sebastian's perspective, what with him singing about how he loves to chop and to serve little fish. However, he doesn't really know the sea creatures are sentient.
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The Little Mermaid / int_f329f2a2	comment	Got Volunteered: Sebastian ends up with the thankless job of keeping tabs on Ariel in the middle of a rant about how he'd make sure she stayed in line if she were his daughter.
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The Little Mermaid / int_f48d0f54	type	Not Evil, Just Misunderstood
The Little Mermaid / int_f48d0f54	comment	Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Ursula claims this.
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The Little Mermaid / int_f4fe270	comment	Villainous Glutton: Ursula.
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The Little Mermaid / int_f50defd6	comment	Static Character: Zigzagged. Thanks to Eric's influence, Ariel does learn she should stay true to her core beliefs, in spite of her father's xenophobia, and she also learns some of her more impulsive, short-sighted actions can have far-reaching consequences, but her character doesn't change that much in the first movie compared to other Disney protagonists. This could be a deliberate choice, since one of the main points of the original film is that people keep trying to force Ariel to be something that she's not and she finds happiness and acceptance on land, with Eric. In any case, the sequel gives her further, more significant Character Development, and the prequels flesh out her upbringing.
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The Little Mermaid / int_f6e99f40	type	Youngest Child Wins
The Little Mermaid / int_f6e99f40	comment	Youngest Child Wins: And is the only one to actually get married and leave home, apparently. Word of God says that Ariel is her father's favourite, because she is the most like her deceased mother.
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The Little Mermaid / int_f74022ea	type	Magic Cauldron
The Little Mermaid / int_f74022ea	comment	Magic Cauldron: Ursula, as befits someone who's called a witch, has something which is functionally equivalent to a witch's cauldron. It's used for Ariel's transformation sequence.
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The Little Mermaid / int_f7bbd5b0	type	I Will Find You
The Little Mermaid / int_f7bbd5b0	comment	I Will Find You: Eric's intention when Ursula drags Ariel back to the sea.
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The Little Mermaid / int_f945dff4	type	Facepalm
The Little Mermaid / int_f945dff4	comment	Facepalm: Ariel during Scuttle's "little romantic stimulation". Sebastian after Flotsam and Jetsam foil his plan to have Ariel and Eric kiss. King Triton does a rather sad one whilst blaming himself for Ariel's disappearance after destroying the human treasures in her grotto.
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The Little Mermaid / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
The Little Mermaid / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: Never, ever let Ariel drive your horse-drawn carriage (unless she learned better since then).
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The Little Mermaid / int_f97b5d33	type	Shoo Out the Clowns
The Little Mermaid / int_f97b5d33	comment	Shoo Out the Clowns: Scuttle, Sebastian, and Flounder kind of get pushed to the side during the climax.
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The Little Mermaid / int_f9dfb57a	type	Fine, You Can Just Wait Here Alone
The Little Mermaid / int_f9dfb57a	comment	Fine, You Can Just Wait Here Alone: "You can just stay here and watch for sharks."
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The Little Mermaid / int_fb297e7	type	Gainaxing
The Little Mermaid / int_fb297e7	comment	Gainaxing: Ursula, of all characters, got an inordinate amount of time spent on her to make sure she jiggled realistically. Ariel isn't immune to this either. During the "Part of Your World" reprise, when she raises herself above the rock on the final line, her breasts jiggle a little.
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The Little Mermaid / int_fbb310ed	type	Job Song
The Little Mermaid / int_fbb310ed	comment	Job Song: In "Poor Unfortunate Souls", Ursula sings about her job of offering alleged help to people. In "Les Poissons", the chef sings about his job as a chef.
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The Little Mermaid / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
The Little Mermaid / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: Ursula states that she was "banished and exiled." Both are the same thing.
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The Little Mermaid / int_fc33ff16	type	One-Winged Angel
The Little Mermaid / int_fc33ff16	comment	One-Winged Angel: Ursula at the end. Vanessa changing back into Ursula also counts.
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The Little Mermaid / int_fca0525f	type	They Have the Scent!
The Little Mermaid / int_fca0525f	comment	They Have the Scent!: Max tracks Ariel down by scent twice in the film, licking her face upon finding her both times. The second time is even how Prince Eric first meets her.
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The Little Mermaid / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: King Triton, although unlike others he actually has a Freudian Excuse.
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The Little Mermaid / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
The Little Mermaid / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: The Daughters of Triton are all "A" names: Ariel, Aquata, Andrina, Arista, Attina, Adella, and Alana. All of them are also three syllables, like their mother's name Athena. Odd Name Out: Ariel's name starts with A like her sisters', but it does not end with A. But sometimes she does....like in the Croatian and Italian dubs.
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The Little Mermaid / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: The "dinglehopper" and the "snarfblatt".
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The Little Mermaid / int_fe15fac8	comment	Giant Poofy Sleeves: Ariel's wedding dress.
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The Little Mermaid / int_fe5e40e2	type	Gondor Calls for Aid
The Little Mermaid / int_fe5e40e2	comment	Gondor Calls for Aid: Scuttle gets an army of fish, ducks, flamingos, crabs, dolphins, seals, and even starfish to help him crash and stall Vanessa's wedding.
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The Little Mermaid / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
The Little Mermaid / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Ursula doesn't finish Ariel's transformation into a polyp before Triton offers to take her place.
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The Little Mermaid / int_fea27091	comment	Buffy Speak: Ariel is foreign enough to human life to call her collections "thingamabobs", "whatsits", "whosits" and "gizmos". It's implied that she learned them all from Scuttle, who is no scholar himself.
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The Little Mermaid / int_ff6ae1f6	type	Evil-Detecting Dog
The Little Mermaid / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: Max can smell something wrong with Ursula when she's in the Vanessa-disguise (she probably smells like octopus and whatever those things are that she eats). Between that and his knowing who actually saved Eric...
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The Little Mermaid / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Little Mermaid / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Flotsam and Jetsam get hit by a stray blast from the trident, and explode into tiny fragments of flesh, bone and eyes. And since Ursula actually loved them, this winds up pissing her off.
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The Little Mermaid / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Ursula's blood is shown to be blue when Eric harpoons her. Cephalopods do indeed have blue blood in real life.
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